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Resettlement Administration started in 1935, spent $450,000,000 in two years. Its chief function was to move chunks of the U. S. population from unproductive terrain to land where they could make a living. Most remarkable of a series of what even the President called costly failures was an effort to settle 200 U. S. farmers in Alaska's Matanuska Valley, where many of those settlers, still remaining after two years of tribulation, are spending this summer trying to raise a crop of winter wheat because the Government supplied them with the wrong seed. In June...
...whose dream came true was 72-year-old Dr. John Lorenzo Dow Roberts, who settled in Monterey 40 years ago. Many of his patients lived along the rugged coastal mountains reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel...
...that has been busying the Washington press for several weeks suddenly made Washington realize that last week's Cherry Blossom Festival might be the last for many years to come. To honor the memory of First Democrat Thomas Jefferson (in the words of the Republican Washington Post): "A terrain world famous for its beauty would become a replica of a western mining camp. A decade would scarcely suffice to restore its present charm." Back of the battle over Washington's Tidal Basin stands the amiable, aging figure of John Joseph Boylan. Tammanyite, for 15 years...
...Museum has enlisted the cooperation of the Departments of Geology, Botany, and Zoology in this study, he added. Joseph E. Upson is compiling a physiographic report of the then existing terrain; indicating elevations, drainage systems, climate, rainfall, and productive soils...
...hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been shuttling across the desert for 14 years. A passenger boards the bus late in the afternoon, takes a seat in a modern interior designed like a standard Pullman. Until nightfall he watches the flat Syrian terrain from, one of 17 windows. After a box supper, a native steward makes up the 14 upper and lower berths. To guard against sandstorms, the whole machine is airtight. To guard against temperatures varying from zero to 140° F., there is air conditioning. Fare...