Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Basin Street Jazz (Sat. 10:05 p.m.-> CBS). With Mel Torm...
...projects which we published in the Jan. 31 issue last year. People were talking about these Colorado River projects as far back as 50 years ago. The plans almost reached the drawing board stage, but four Congresses in a row passed them by. Now the development of the river basin, an area larger than all of New England, will enrich our whole country. New irrigation and power dams will increase the productivity of some 360,000 acres of land, but even more important it will open up the basin's wealth of lead, gold, silver, zinc, coal...
After last week's decisive vote in the Congress, we are sure we share with many other, editors and publishers across the nation a sense of gratification that an informed public opinion helped to bring the Upper Colorado River Basin development to the verge of reality...
...Upper Basin of the Colorado River is 110,000 square miles of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, all thirsting for water to develop their rich mineral resources and irrigate their potentially fine farmlands (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). For 50 years basin planners have talked about a vast power and reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National...
...agreed to drop the Echo Park dam from the House measure. Last week, while the House debated the bill, President Eisenhower made a strong plea for the bill, "an opportunity at last to treat the whole great, mighty Colorado River as a single entity, to treat it on a basin basis instead of merely local and individual. I hope we can have positive action on that as rapidly as possible...