C. B. Harston Papers 1939-1974

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C. B. Harston Papers 1939-1974

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Correspondence, financial records, reports, minutes, research data, photographs and other papers concerning soil analysis and conversion methods. Included are records of a Tennessee Valley Authority-Washington State University cooperative fertilizer project, 1939-1964; and material on the Whitman County Solid Waste Disposal Subcommittee, 1969-1974.

8 containers.; 4 linear feet of shelf space.; 1600 items.

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Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)

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Harston, C. B., 1911-

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Soil scientist, Washington State University. From the description of Papers, 1939-1974. (Washington State University). WorldCat record id: 29853132 C. B. Harston was born in 1911 at Cowley, Wyoming. In 1938 he received his B.S. from Brigham Young University, and from the University of Missouri he received his M.A. in 1939 and Ph.D. in 1943. Dr. Harston's career with Washington State University began in 1943 but was interrupted during World War II by ...

Whitman County Solid Waste Disposal Subcommittee.

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Tennessee Valley authority

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The TVA was created in 1933 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed an act creating a federal agency to develop the Tennessee Valley region, then suffering from soil depletion, flood damage, and economic depression. Fifty years later, over 30 electricity-producing dams controlled the Tennessee and its tributaries, and a navigation channel had been created from Paducah, Ky., to Knoxville, Tenn. In addition TVA had carried out programs to prevent pollution, improve forest and farm management, ...