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Marian Heiskell, LL.D., newspaper executive and conservationist. A director of the New York Times, you criticize editorial policy by writing a letter to the editor...
...liquefaction and shale oil production in the 1920's, congratulated the engineers responsible saying. "You men have proved something more valuable than any other researchers in the federal government. We now know that we have enough cheap oil in our coals to last for ever." But Gifford Pinchot, the conservationist, had enough experience with the power of large companies acting in collusion to warn, "The fuels trust will never permit the shale oil and oil from coals projects to get developed unless they own them...
...John M. Bradley of Boston's aristocratic North Shore is concerned that the community will not continue its support for such laudable institutions as Friends of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, of which she is chairwoman, and the Radcliffe College Fund (co-chairwoman). Says Mrs. K. Dun Gifford, a conservationist leader of Cambridge, Mass., society, "I'm not complaining about the family's self-enforced economies: I find all this very healthy. I'm learning budgetary disciplines I should have acquired ten years ago. We recycle the kids' clothes like mad. I'm even getting...
Whales, as every alert conservationist knows, are a clearly endangered species, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 prohibits bringing any part of a whale into the U.S. To inquiries about whether the President had personally brought back one of the whalebone souvenirs, a White House aide replied firmly: "I'm sure...
After the war Lindbergh, while still remaining a high-level consultant to Pan American World Airways, became an early, ardent and passionate conservationist, traveling around the world in the cause of the environment. In his last years his favorite spot was a simple, five-acre retreat on the Hawaiian island of Maui...