Dust Bowl Hero Was Hugh H Bennett Not Steinbeck
The 1930s dust bowl era is remembered for songs and books but the pivotal figure was Dr. Hugh H Bennett. Commissioned to lead soil conservation, he taught farmers terracing, stubble use, and dam building restoring topsoil across five million acres of the North Plains.
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Hugh H. Bennett
Washington
U.S. Conservation Authority
North Plains
Dr. Bennett
America
West
John Steinbeck
Court Halts FTC Oil Breakup Order Amid NEPA Review
A federal judge voided the FTC plan to break up major oil companies and ordered an environmental impact study under NEPA. Eight majors faced proposed divestitures of refining and pipelines, with Mobil, Gulf, Shell, and Standard Oil of California leading the challenge. The ruling allows ongoing scrutiny of potential environmental and economic costs of restructuring the petroleum system.
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New York
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
United States
U.S. District Court
John M. Cannella
Mobil Oil Corp
Gulf Oil Corp
Shell Oil Co
Standard Oil Co
California
Exxon Corp
Texaco Inc
Atlantic Richfield Co
Indiana
Cannella
NEPA
Weather Violence Probe Echo In Congress
A fragment notes violence under congressional scrutiny and suggests extending the inquiry to weather violence. The piece includes a Seattle bank sign about earnings and a pedestrian remark by Olsen Park Pete. ends with a quirky image of a driver finally finding a parking spot.
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Seattle
Olsen Park
Pete
Melisha's Folks Given 99 Years
Ronald and Wanda Gibson Maddux were convicted of murdering Melisha Gibson, a 4 year old once abused by the couple. Both were sentenced to 99 years and one day in the state penitentiary after a 45 minute jury deliberation.
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Athens, Tenn
Ronald
Wanda Gibson Maddux
Melisha
Richard Fisher
Madduxes
Maddux
Plains voter sent gifts for Billy Carter button trade
Concord humor as Mal Richards sought a Billy Carter button. Plains GA registrars mailed stamps bumper stickers records and peanut items instead. Richards called it a personal affront to a Yankee from a Southern Democrat for not sending the Billy button.
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Concord
N.H
UPI
Richards
Plains
Billy Carter
Plains Voting Board of Registrars
Jimmy Carter
Plains Baptist Church
Les Waldropp
Lynn Moon
Billy Button
Trapped Miner Contacts Rescuers Amid Coal Flood Delay
In Tower City Pennsylvania a coal miner Ronald Adley aged 37 has been trapped for more than two days. He chewed tobacco and drank coffee while rescuers bored through 50 feet of coal toward him. Seven others remain missing and two bodies have been found. Adley reports no knowledge of other miners. Rescue crews work in two hour shifts aiming to complete the horizontal escape hatch by Friday afternoon. He remains in good spirits and strong, receiving hot coffee chocolate and small tokens through a care tube
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Tower City
Ronald Adley
Adley
Shutack
Kocher
Cadets Die in Italian Plane Crash Near Pisa
A C130 transport crash north of Pisa killed 44 aboard including 38 naval cadets from Leghorn Naval Academy. The one hour training flight from Pisa ended on Mt Serra under fog as investigators probe cause with a commission named. American servicemen aided in the search. weather was reportedly clear at takeoff.
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Pisa
Italy
Air Force
Defense Ministry
Leghorn Naval Academy
Annapolis
Mt. Serra
San Giusto
Alvaro Armani
Defense Department
Armani
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Life Magazine
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Wes Izzard
Panhandle
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Ronald Maddux
Fisher
John Shutack
Federal Mining Enforcement and Safety Administration
Hercules
U.S
Leghorn
Here
Tuscany
Tyrrhenian Sea
Heracles
Royal Air Force
Lockheed
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