Word: conservationism
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Effective this week, Canadian service-station operators will sell gas and oil-for cash-only between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. weekdays. On Sundays they will lock up their pumps and go walking. (Company credit cards are out, except for American tourists.) Gas prices were upped 1? per Imperial gallon...
Behind the drive was the big, lumbering figure of Robert Earll McConnell, an OPM dollar-a-year man who is both penny and pound wise. McConnell began organizing a conservation & substitution section last March, has since made it one of OPM's most active and successful branches. His staff...
"Our real interests are not primarily in the number and sizes of communities but in the laws governing the conservation of energy in the processing of raw materials and in the distribution of finished goods within a social-economic system. . . . The number and sizes of a nation's . . . communities...
Robert E. McConnell, emergency-conscious chief of OPM's Conservation & Substitution Section, made a list of 16 important industrial raw materials, with the ratio of apparent civilian demands to available supply (after defense needs) at month's beginning:
The U.S. farmer's favorite synonym for prosperity-$1 wheat-was a reality last week. Commodity Credit Corp. announced a new wheat loan rate of 98? a bushel, up 33? from 1940. Together with parity and conservation payments, this guarantees farmers about $1.16 a bushel-best average price since...