Word: conservationism
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¶ At Dalhart, Tex., the Commission visited a farm where green crops were growing on land that was near-desert two years ago, the result of Government experiments in soil conservation. Between Dalhart and Guymon, in the Oklahoma Panhandle, Dr. Tugwell and Mr. Cooke climbed dust hills 40 feet high...
Alien Property Custodian Bituminous Coal Commission Farm Credit Administration Federal Communications Commission National Labor Relations Board Securities and Exchange Commission Railroad Retirement Board Motor Carrier Bureau of the Interstate Commerce Commission Social Security Board Public Utility Regulation Soil Conservation Service United States Railroad Administration National Training School for Boys Certain...
Meanwhile the Democratic National Committee was bragging: "The entire country is applauding the swift, energetic and efficient manner in which the Roosevelt Administration is moving to the relief of drought victims in the Great Plains states. . . . Think what a calamity it would be if the Hoover doctrine were in force...
Most of the work would be water conservation - dams, reservoirs and terraces to hold the rains if & when they did come. But the only permanent solution, declared Administrator Hopkins, was to turn much of the West's cropland into pasture, run the enormous political and sociological risk of moving...
Indiana & Conservation: ". . . George Rogers Clark did battle against the tomahawk and the rifle. He saved for us the fair land that lay between the mountains and the Father of Waters. His task is not done. Though we fight with weapons unknown to him, it is still our duty to continue...