Word: conservationism
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Local people say the number of hawks that flew over Hawk Mountain decreased 75% in the past ten years. Hawk Mountain became a preserve in September 1934. In the years preceding, local farmers and hunters went with guns every fall to the top of Hawk Mountain and blazed away at...
Next month every one of the 300,000 Civilian Conservation Corps enrollees who is willing will get a hypodermic injection in his arm. In consequence it is hoped that no more than 300 of them will develop pneumonia this winter, and only ten of them will die from this disease...
The Bureau, tottering along on meagre appropriations, had not been able to make much progress in the direction of Conservation when, in 1934, President Roosevelt finally gave ear to the agonized howls of 7½ million sportsmen. He appointed a Committee on Wildlife Restoration. The Committee promptly recommended that $25...
¶ A regional conservation bill (parceling out the U. S. among "seven TVAs"). Sponsored by Nebraska's George W. Norris, it was dropped when he fell ill.
All last spring Secretary of Agriculture Wallace was busy with the aid of farm leaders concocting a new farm bill, something to succeed the Soil Conservation Act (hurriedly passed when AAA was invalidated), something permanent and inclusive-to begin with soil conservation payments, continue with the ever-normal granary (Joseph...