Word: arizona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barton offered to undertake the biggest Indian land development of all time. The friendly Missourian, a dabbler in uranium and alfalfa, was a godsend to the Indian Affairs Bureau officials. They signed him up just one day before expiration of an act enabling Interior to lease 67,000 parched Arizona acres with the expectation of turning them into a desert garden for some 1,500 Mojave and Chemehuevi tribesmen, who would get the land back in 25 years. As first installment on the $28 million deal, which promised handsome profits to Developer Barton from subleases to cotton growers after...
...Soft Snore. A dull, droning speaker at best, Thurmond began by reading the texts of the election laws of all 48 states-from Alabama to Wyoming. By 11:30, Republican Everett Dirksen was passing the word: "Boys, it looks like an all-nighter." But at 1 a.m. Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater approached Thurmond's desk, asked in a whisper how much longer Strom would last. Back came the answer: "About another hour." Goldwater asked that Thurmond temporarily yield the floor to him for an insertion in the Congressional Record. Thurmond happily consented-and used the few-minute interim...
...wanted, Ben Barka did not succumb to the common delusion that the U.S. is a chrome-spun nation so rich that its experience can have no relevance to the problems of other peoples. He took a look at Manhattan and Washington. D.C., but was more particularly interested in Arizona's irrigated cotton fields and in Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap," the imaginative economic self-development program designed to pull Puerto Rico out of centuries of poverty...
...arrogantly demanded permission to edit and change the records of the hearings-a barefaced attempt that would enable him to square his imminent testimony with later established fact. For a while Hoffa had even seemed to be in charge. He led Michigan's bumbling Democratic Senator Pat McNamara, Arizona's Republican Senator Barry Goldwater and New York's Ives down a primrose path. There was conservative Goldwater blandly agreeing with Teamster Hoffa ("I am very hopeful that your philosophy prevails") on the role of organized labor in the U.S. economy, in a windy discourse that had both...
HUGE FARM AREA will be created along Colorado River in southwestern Arizona, where Real Estateman Stanley W. Barton made deal with Interior Department to transform 67,000 parched acres of Indian reservation into desert garden. In history's biggest lease of Indian lands for agricultural development, Barton will spend about $28 million to complete an irrigating system, also develop industrial and residential sites. Reservation's 1,400 Indians will get jobs, and much improved land will revert to them in 20 to 25 years...