Word: domaine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee by the City Council, requesting the City Manager to negotiate with the Fly's trustees and with the University for the purchase of the three lots. If the present owners "refuse to cooperate," the order said, the land is to be taken by the right of eminent domain and made available for free night parking...
...group, organized by two College students to obtain low-cost chartered air transportation, ran one flight despite the Council's refusal to endorse it last spring, and plans expansion this year. The Council's position this fall remained essentially unchanged: endorsement of private enterprise lies outside the Council's domain, and in this case entails too much responsibility...
...impressive as his musical domain is his travel schedule. Last month he visited the Salzburg Festival, darted over to Lucerne for another festival (he conducted a Mozart program), then flew on to the island of Ischia in the bay of Naples, where he rested for a few days. From there he sailed his 50-ton yacht (crew of three) to Portofino, motored to Genoa, hopped a plane to Zurich, got into his waiting silver-grey Mercedes 300 SL and soloed at a breakneck 90 m.p.h. back to Lucerne for rehearsals and a concert, then caught a plane for West Berlin...
...projected Mission 66 for the National Parks is constructive, and the Parks have received more funds under this Administration than previously. He has sold some dispensable, scattered public lands, and he and Secretary of Agriculture Benson sometimes stepped in to prevent wanton timbering on the public domain. McKay also protected the world's last 28 whooping cranes by blocking an Air Force plan to practice night photoflash bombing near the cranes' refuge...
America's natural resources are strictly limited, and their preservation requires a careful, foresighted use of them. For hydro-electrical potential and public lands, for wildlife and fisheries management, for all the resources under the public domain, the America of tomorrow requires that we turn our backs on the wasteful ways of today, that we hold firm to what remains and use it wisely in the years to come...