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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Petroleum Association of America and the A.G.A., which represents 33 of the nation's 120 interstate pipeline companies as well as 300 local gas firms, were active, of course. But so were the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, speaking for 70,000 member businesses, and the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, which includes 118 farm and marketing co-ops and 3.5 million farmers. These groups had one overriding concern: they did not want a repetition of last winter's drastic shortage of natural...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: A Sky Full of Learjets | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...forcing Secretary of the Interior Cecil Andrus to try to bring back the old homesteader. In August, Andrus announced that 1 million acres of federally irrigated farm land in 18 Western states would be redistributed in a national lottery on the homestead principle of 160 acres for a farmer and each member of his family. The Andrus proposal caused outrage throughout the West. Particularly shaken up were the owners of the enormous "factories of the fields" in areas like California's Imperial Valley, one of the largest food baskets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Homestead Act Hits Home | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...lottery proposal grew out of a federal suit filed in 1975 by National Land for People Inc., a group of small California farmers who charged that the Government had never really enforced the Federal Reclamation Act of 1902. That law's original goal: to give a boost to the small family farmer by granting 160-acre parcels of the West's vast quantity of public arid land, and making it fit for agriculture by bringing in federally subsidized water. According to the suit, larger landowners (including such agribusiness giants as Southern Pacific Co., Standard Oil and Tenneco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Homestead Act Hits Home | 10/17/1977 | See Source »

...Farmer Brown jokes aside, the Woodsmen (ugh) are 4-0 this year and have their best squad since the era of Bob Blackman, Murray Bowden, Jim Chasey, and Brendon O'Neill at the turn of the decade. In 1970 Dartmouth finished its season undefeated and ranked 15th in the nation, the last Ivy squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Poisoned Dartmouth | 10/13/1977 | See Source »

...farmer's wife tossed a little do in her Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 3, 1977 | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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