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Along the Snake. As the presidential train rolled across the black-loam Iowa fields laced with corn stubble and patched with rain-fed lakes, it became clear that Harry Truman was concentrating much of his fire on the Republicans' 1950 slogan: "Liberty against socialism." Time after time he cited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Hired Man | 5/22/1950 | See Source »

American Government is the best stocked, with such popular favorites as McCloskey (Constitutional Development, 124), Cherington (Problems in Federalism, 153; and 155: Government Regulation of Industry). Maass' Conservation (157) was well taught and well received in its second outing. Lambie dissects municipal and Hanford state government in 140 and 141...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Government | 4/28/1950 | See Source »

Joseph C. Knox, secretary of the New England Interstate Water Pollution Control Commission will discuss water pollution in inland and tidal waters at 7:30 p.m. tonight at a meeting of the Conservation Society in the Lowell House Tower Room. This is the fifth in a series of programs sponsored...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Knox Speaks Tonight | 3/23/1950 | See Source »

Through the old dust-bowl region-spreading outward from the area where the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles hang together-hundreds of soil-conservation districts had been formed; farmers had "windstripped" their fields by alternating bands of cropland with long panels of soil-anchoring grassland. They had planted tree windbreaks, built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GREAT PLAINS: Pale Ydlow Ghost | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

4.) The same sources point out that Pick-Sloan soil conservation is so deficient that engineers expect the project's dams will be silted up within a few years.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Friends of Old man River | 2/25/1950 | See Source »

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