Word: conservationism
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Last July, when bustle-bottomed Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia waddled into the aluminum drive as head of OCD, rangy Bob McConnell of OPM's conservation division already had a plan. It called for collection of the scrap by local committees, its sale to junk dealers who would sell it...
>A program of public works-in agriculture, soil conservation, power development, transportation, housing.
Corporal Winthrop Rockefeller returned to Manhattan from maneuvers in North Carolina with a full-blown mustache, advice on how to stay rich in the Army. "The best investment I ever made," he confided, "was not learning how to play craps or poker." ∙ ∙ Paul V. McNutt's pretty...
First U.S. work camps were those of CCC. But not to be confused with CCC are such camps as the one in Wilkes-Barre, whose prime purpose is not conservation or relief but education. They enroll rich youngsters as well as poor, are intended to give them experience in democratic...
McConnell has no legal authority, can only present his suggestions to industry and hope that they stick. They have stuck. His office helped OPACS draw up a rubber-conservation agreement under which manufacturers will cut consumption from 817,000 to 600,000 tons a year by using more reclaimed rubber...