Word: fair-field
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Dates: during 1949-1949
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These conditions are not isolated; the Washington conference brought out a lot more of them. And it deserved much more than a cold shoulder from the government. The experts talked about new books like William Vogt's "Road to Survival" and Fair-field Osborn's "Our Plundered Planet," which describe the squeeze population growth is putting on our food supply. They discussed synthesizing food from chemicals, flood control, and atomic power sources, and large-scale projects such as the proposed Columbia Valley Authority. They worked on crosion. But most of all they worried about what one speaker called...