Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With six servants to care for their establishment, the O'Neills lived with the guarded, exquisite frugality possible to the rich: quietly idling, reading or playing records in the evenings, occasionally entertaining one or another of their few close friends, less often putting up people like Publisher Bennett Cerf, never giving parties. It was a fertile, happy life, for people who knew how to use it, and in their early middle age the O'Neills knew very well...
Nevertheless, at Princeton last week Bennett was still gloomy. Erosion, he said, had ruined one-fifth of the nation's tillable land, had damaged a third of the remainder, and was threatening another third. Something must be done...
...every airplane passenger could see how much had already been done. The graceful contour strips and terraces of well-run U.S. farms were a lasting monument to Bennett. And the Bennett gospel was spreading fast to distant parts of the world...
...this time a great idea had taken shape in Bennett's mind. Farmers would, he was sure, use science voluntarily if properly approached. He proposed that they be persuaded to band together in "soil conservation districts," each choosing its officers in a democratic election, and running its own affairs. Bennett's experts would help the districts as "land doctors." In their kits they had a dazzling array of medicines. For gullies, they described cheap, home-made dams and new plants, such as kudzu vine, to hold the sliding soil. For hilly fields they prescribed novel methods of contour...
...Arnold Bennett. 4. Sir Hugh Walpole...