Word: conservationism
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When 33 U. S. sportsmen banded last year to help Government and private conservation agencies protect and restore the nation's wild life, they chose Walter P. Chrysler as first chairman of their American Wild Life Institute. Motorman Chrysler, whose favorite fun is shooting wildfowl on his Great Choptank...
Another man who thinks of the future, though by no means in such pessimistic terms as "Coin" Harvey, is wiry, grey-haired Thornwell Jacobs, president of Atlanta's Oglethorpe University. Having revived Oglethorpe in 1915 from the suspended animation in which it had languished since its students marched off...
Not the least of the Fairchild aerial wonders are aerial contour maps, now made in a big way for the Department of Agriculture in connection with soil conservation work. In a vertical aerial photograph the earth's surface looks perfectly flat. Third dimensional relief can be obtained by the...
At a Republican dinner that night he further endeared himself to sportsmen by plumping strongly for wildlife conservation, promising to clean up the "mess and muddle" the New Deal had made of it.
The trend of progressivism, far from being an invention of the New Deal, was merely brought further by Roosevelt after a start under the Hoover administration. The latter was handicapped by a hostile Congress and public, but the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, and the older Federal Farm Board were the seeds...