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Soil erosion serious cause for impoverishment senate committee told. Washington, D.C., March 9. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, H.H. Bennett, Chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, declared that soil erosion is a serious cause of impoverishment. "To the Nation as a whole" Bennett said, "uncontrolled erosion has brought a gradual and continuing reduction of productive agricultural land," 3/9/38

Soil erosion serious cause for impoverishment senate committee told. W...

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Senators see damage done by soil erosion. Washington, D.C., March 9. H.H. Bennett, Chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, is shown describing to members of the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee the great amount of damage done throughout the country by soil erosion. Bennett said that soil erosion is a serious cause of impoverishment due to the ruin of productive agricultural land by it every year, 3/9/38 Senators Carl A. Hator and James Byres of the committee are shown on the left

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