Word: western
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week two very different groups of people did some concentrated worrying about conservation. Colorado rangers of the U. S. Forest Service fought a strong push by Western sheep ranchers to graze their flocks without restriction on public lands. The sheep-men were lobbying hard and effectively in Congress. All the same time in Washington, a group of soil experts, engineers, and other conservationists met in what they called the National Emergency Conference on Resources. No Congressmen bothered to show...
...Russia on the other, in event of conflict. Mr. Eliot gives Russia another year in which to decide to attack the West, and the West three years to make the same decision if either is to be successful. According to the author, Russia could now capture all of Western Europe easily, but the United States would still possess final superiority in the air. Time is with this country in arming the Atlantic Pact nations but it will also allow Russia to develop atomic weapons...
...Western Union Company probably prevented Bill Rickenbacker from winning the New England student golf championship Saturday morning...
Rickenbacker captain of the varsity golf team, slept through the first round of the 16-man individual championships after a telegraph operator had allegedly failed to wake him at 7 a.m. Saturday. Late Friday night, he said, he had asked Western Union to phone him in the morning, in accordance with the Company's regular awakening service...
...said editorially, "the single alternative to that program [condition government advocated by General Marshall two years ago] is American military support of the Civil War. Such support cannot save the fascistic Kuomintang and will only further catrange the liberals whose friendship is essential to the reconstruction of China along Western lines...