Word: conservationism
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5. The state's forest conservation program.
While it might impose no new controls, the Brannan Plan would extend them to many more farmers. A lot of the controls were designed for the farmer's own good (soil conservation, sensible crop limitations, etc.), but any independent-minded farmer would have a harder time escaping them unless...
Friends in Congress of the oilmen hoped to settle things another way; they wanted Congress to upset the Supreme Court ruling and turn the tidal lands back to the states. But there seemed small chance of any such quick congressional action. Furthermore, many a citizen in and out of Congress...
The sad truth is that Mrs. Geysel has become a lot too good to be true during her metamorphosis into The Legacy's heroine, Jean Paget. Jean is a wonderful girl, but she never existed outside a glossy-paper fiction magazine with a woman's angle. While she...
The Justice Department last week fired a broadside at Standard Oil Co. of California and the six other big oil companies operating on the West Coast.* Charging monopoly and price-fixing, the department filed an antitrust suit to force the companies to: 1) end their exclusive-dealer contracts with independent...