Word: basin
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...federal appropriation for Seattle's 1962 World's Fair, as well as to a healthy share of Government contracts for Seattle's Boeing plant, for the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and the Sand Point Naval Air Station. He speaks of the vast Columbia River Basin reclamation project as though he had built it himself-"This year I put up the Glen Canyon transmission lines." In his tribute last week, former Senator John Kennedy wryly listed Maggie's Senate techniques: "He never visits the Senate until late in the afternoon, when almost everybody has gone home...
...practicality of proposed government plans to move whole sierra villages into the vast, unsettled selva is extremely dubious to anyone who has felt the oppressive, steaming air of the Amazon basin. Until some solution is found, penniless sierra Indians and mestizos will continue to pour into the rapidly growing slums which ring Peru's modern coastal cities...
Hoyt was the featured speaker at the Club's fall organization meeting, where George O'Day, Olympic yachtsman and a friend of Harvard sailing, also reported on the progress of plans for a new Club float on the Charles River Basin. O'Day, who may supply interclub dinghies for the Club's use on the basin float expressed optimism about the possibilities for completion of the project next spring or in fall '62. The Club has submitted plans for the construction which are still in the hands of the University and have yet to be approved by the City...
Spaced across Siberia, at approximately 1,000-mile intervals, are three other industrial complexes. One is based on the coal and iron ore of the Kuznetsk Basin, the second on the hydroelectric power of the Angara River, the third on the mines of Yakutia...
...Detroit's third annual Festival of American Music, the beat was strictly jazz, and the performers were pure cream: Dave Brubeck and Count Basie on the ivories, Pete Fountain on the clarinet, Jack Brokensha on the vibes, and Cannonball Adderley, the meanest alto sax this side of Basin Street. The cats in the crowd yowled for all of them. But they also cheered for a bulky banjo player, clad in a cleric's cassock, who sat in the midst of a stripe-blazered combo and lined out Bill Bailey and Paddlin' Madeleine Home with minstrel zest...