Word: conservationist
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Died. Frederic Collin Walcott, 80, onetime Republican Senator from Connecticut (1929-35); after long illness; in Stamford, Conn. A longtime friend of Herbert Hoover (he was Hoover's aide in the World War I European food relief program) and an ardent wildlife conservationist (he authored the federal duck stamp bill to finance conservation measures), Senator Walcott helped write the law which...
...meat-packing industry brags that it uses all of a pig but the squeal. The lumber industry is different. It is so wasteful that a conservationist once growled: "They use the squeal and throw away the pig." No more than a third of a felled tree becomes lumber. The rest is left in the forest or is wasted at the sawmills...
...people are gloomier, professionally and perennially, than the men who run the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Guests at Princeton's Bicentennial Conference on Engineering and Human Affairs last week heard a habitual prophet of doom: Dr. Hugh H. Bennett, 65, chief U.S. conservationist. In his best doomsday voice Dr. Bennett talked about soil and its abuse. Every decade, he said, there are 200,000,000 more people in the world and less soil from which to feed them. A vast acreage is being ruined each year. Something must be done for the soil...
Died. Gifford Pinchot, 81, opinionated oldtime Progressive Republican, pioneer conservationist and Forestry chief under McKInley, Roosevelt I and Taft (1898-1910), who helped found the Bull Moose Party in 1912 and, despite opposition by G.O.P. bosses, was twice elected Pennsylvania's governor (1923-27, 1931-35); of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...manor houses was Killenworth, a million dollars in stone and granite, Tudor style, with 39 paneled rooms, 13 baths, twelve fireplaces, five cellars, a swimming pool, and flower beds tended by 50 gardeners. It was built by Capitalist Pratt's third son, George Dupont Pratt, well-known conservationist, Boy Scout sponsor, big-game hunter and collector of relics of early civilization. When the master died in 1935, Killenworth fell on hard times, eventually went on sale for taxes. In 1944 the Miller Manufacturing Co., local trunk makers, took it over as an administrative headquarters. Last week Miller & Co. sold...