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...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...
Died. Dr. Thomas Gilbert Pearson, 69, famed conservationist, ornithologist, president emeritus of the National Audubon Society; editor-in-chief of Birds of America (1917); in Manhattan...
...paperboard, which started it all, turned into an embarrassing surplus almost as soon as the scrap-saving drive got under way. Many board mills began to refuse to take any more scrap; others would take it only at prices well under OPA's ceiling. By last week, WPB Conservationist Lessing Rosenwald's division was reduced to writing shamefaced letters to State salvage chairmen calling off wastepaper collections except for areas where paperboard mills were willing to take it. The mills themselves were lazing along at 82% of capacity in the third week in May, v. an average...