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¶Reversed its budget-cutting ways (all four previous appropriation bills were cut) to increase Agriculture Department appropriations for fiscal 1954 to $1.08 billion, which is $8,900,000 more than the Eisenhower Administration requested. The increase came from a hike in soil-conservation funds, voted after North Dakota'...
John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his family donated $6,000,000 to be spent "as soon as possible" in building a large guest lodge and enough cottages to house 5,000 tourists on Jackson Lake, Wyoming, in Grand Teton National Park. The gift completes a conservation project which Rockefeller started...
Happy Fishing Grounds. As usual, some of the best waters for big bass should be the lakes of the Southeast, especially Alabama and Georgia. But bass bugs will also be bobbing happily in two huge, new man-made lakes, where careful conservation and fine feed-beds produce topflight fishing; Arizona...
Carter revealed, however, that the Navy will not continue support when the group returns next summer. He said, "The Navy is now withdrawing support from fields where they have no direct immediate interest. This conservation of funds almost always occurs when there is a change in the national administration." The...
Arnericans do a lot of worrying about waste of the nation's natural resources, but few give much thought to waste of its human beings. Last week, with the publication of its first major report-The Uneducated, by Sociologists Eli Ginzberg and Douglas W. Bray (Columbia; $4.50)-Columbia University...