Word: conservationism
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Several threw their luck in with the Harriman forces. William E. Leuchtonberg, formerly an assistant professor of History, served as a delegate analysist for Harriman, while Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, did sundry chores, and helped with the conservation plank in the Democratic platform.
Several threw their luck in with the Harriman forces. William E. Leuchtonberg, formerly an assistant professor of History, served as a delegate analysist for Harriman, while Arthur A. Maass, assistant professor of Government, did sundry chores, and helped with the conservation plank in the Democratic platform.
Josephy spoke with officials in six federal agencies involved in flood control, land reclamation, conservation and power production in the valley, discovered that few of them had the complete picture of what the others were doing. Also involved were the governments of the ten states and various industrial, agricultural and...
The Army Engineers insist that lower basin levee systems must be reinforced by big river flood-control dams, like the $87 million Tuttle Creek project on the Big Blue River north of Manhattan, Kans. Authorized in 1938 as the key unit in the control of the Kansas (Kaw) River Basin...
Another approach was suggested in 1949 by the Hoover Commission, which recommended a new Bureau of Natural Resources to be made up of the Army Engineers, Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. A year later, President Truman's Water Resources Policy Commission...