Word: mininger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When U.S. children attend grammar school, they learn from their history textbooks that Americans have squandered their natural resources by slaughtering buffalo, raping forests, polluting streams, and plowing up soil-holding grasslands. As the youngsters grow old enough to read Government news releases in the papers, they are reassured that...
Conservation-conscious Americans have been disturbed by recent disclosures in Congress indicating that a gold-and silver mining company named "Al Serena Mines" may have used fraudulent mineral assays to obtain the timbering and mineral rights on mining claims in Oregon. The suspected fraud should surprise few people, for it...
It is even less excusable that land rights on Federal mining claims should be granted without restrictions. Lumber companies which operate on Federal lands must receive a license, and they are closely supervised by the U.S. Forest Service, which compels them to harvest their timber in accordance with sound conservation...
In an election year it is perhaps unrealistic to ask a Congressional committee to frame constructive legislation. Yet the country may at least hope that the Joint Committee investigating the alleged fraud of the Al Serena Mines will eventually tire of exchanging the traditional partisan accusations of "smear" and "collusion...
Atoms & Responsibilities. In 1955 the Government loosened its tight hold on the development of nuclear energy. Encouraged to go it alone, power companies poured $150 million into half a dozen nuclear power plants with up to 250,000 kw. capacity. On the Colorado Plateau alone, the new demand for uranium...