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The gas industry was there in force to back FPC's position. Federal regulation will bring on short supplies, warned Ernest Thompson, a member of the Texas Railroad Commission (which enforces conservation of Texas' underground oil and gas). Rather than accept a money-losing, Government-fixed price, gasmen...
¶ In Yonkers, N.Y. Otis Elevator Co. had threatened to shut its plant (employing 2,100) and move to the Midwest because skyrocketing costs and increased competition threatened to price Otis out of its market. To keep the plant in Yonkers, workers voted three to one to boost efficiency and...
European Notions. Forest Ranger Nevan McCullough, who was an infant when Roosevelt and Pinchot began the Forest Service, is typical of the new breed of forester-and the old as well. His father, an Irish immigrant who got the conservation bug, was a ranger before him, and his eldest son...
As McCullough and his fellow foresters took to the new ideas, thousands of neo-druids-conservationists of the old touch-nothing school-were horrified: "One schoolteacher I took on a tour was so damned mad when she saw tree stumps in a national forest she couldn't talk," he...
Four other state governors were inaugurated last week: Texas. Governor Allan Shivers, sworn in for his third full term, quoted from the Book of Psalms. "So teach us to number our days," said Shivers, who says that he wants to retire after this term (ending in 1957). Wealthy and still...