Word: conservationism
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For the future, workers were promised a 48-hour week, abolition of child labor, equal pay standards for men & women, medical and health benefits. Youths 18 to 20 would serve on forest and soil conservation projects. There would be Govern ment supervision of schools, and Confesor hoped that within 25...
The TVA, he said, was originally thought of by its foes as a big federal power company designed to compete with and envelop private companies, a force destructive to private enterprise. "Actually," he continued, "it is the natural outcome of the conservation policies of Theodore Roosevelt, as well as those...
In Chungking courtly Businessman Howard Coonley, onetime WPB Conservation Director, is now serving as chief adviser to Dr. Wong. American steel experts are in the field, trying to step up China's tiny steel industry (annual production: 10,000 tons), which operates at less than 20% capacity. Alcohol experts...
¶ His fourteenth, 25-foot Christmas balsam from Berlin (N.Y.), sent to him each year by the New York State Conservation Department.
¶ In the swimming pool at the famed old Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, paralyzed men exercise their flaccid limbs. In the wards, men with legs scarred by vein surgery and men with tantalum plates in their skulls read books on diesel engines, cattle raising, soil conservation. (They cheerfully...