LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Letters To The Editor

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April 1970

14 years ago By admin

Volume

21

Issue

3

CONSERVATION CONSERVATION CONSERVATION CATASTROPHE BY THE NUMBERS CATASTROPHE BY THE NUMBERS CATASTROPHE BY THE NUMBERS JUSTICE TO FIRST INHABITANTS

Stories published from "April 1970"

Hudson’s Bay Album

Authored by: The Editors

Here is the Nonsuch, a ketch well named, plunging through North Atlantic waves in 1668 on her way to the founding of Canada’s most famous business enterprise

Epitaph for an American Landmark: the Amoskeag Mills

Authored by: David McCullough

At one time it was the largest cotton mill in the world. Now, in the name of progress, one of New England’s most historic and unusual urban areas is being carved into parking lots

The Hudson’s Bay Company

Authored by: David Lavender

A TRICENTENNIAL REPORT Having worked like a beaver to overcome three centuries of plunging thermometers, recalcitrant Indians, and fierce competitors from Quebec and the U.S.A., it remains today the continent’s most durable trading enterprise

The Realms Of Gould

Authored by: Frank Kintrea

The notorious financier’s properties included railroads, yachts, and newspapers, but none was more precious to him than Lyndhurst, the family castle on the Hudson. It would have distressed him to know that it now belongs to you and me

The Spies Who Came In From The Sea

Authored by: W. A. Swanberg

Wartime America’s nerves were jumpy. One foggy night on a deserted Long Island beach a young coastguardsman heard the muffled engines of a submarine offshore, and suddenly eight shadowy figures loomed up out of the mist

The Gentlewoman and the Robber Baron

Authored by: Virginia Van Der Veer Hamilton

When Ida Tarbell set out to probe the operations of John D. Rockefeller’s Standard Oil Trust, it seemed like David against Goliath all over again

The Bitter Struggle For A National Park

Authored by: John G. Mitchell

"We have permanently safeguarded an irreplaceable primitive area," said President Truman as he dedicated Everglades National Park in 1947. Bit what is permanence, and what is "safeguarded"? Did he speak too soon?

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