Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado basin would benefit immensely; however, thousands of protests against the project have hit McKay's desk. Reason: professional nature lovers like Bernard DeVoto, Richard Neuberger and Wallace Stegner, all of whom wear shoes and live in houses while writing about the great outdoors, have raised an outcry because the project would flood part of Dinosaur National Monument...
...crux of the Republican policy is that only where local interests cannot assure development of natural resources should the Federal Government step in. For example, the Administration is pushing two huge projects, which fall under this heading: development of the Upper Colorado Basin and the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana...
...from Egypt's government, hammered out a give-and-take agreement with the Arabs. The Arabs abandoned their alternative proposal. Johnston, in return, agreed to: 1) their demand for additional dams on the Yarmuk, and 2) their insistence that the Jordan waters be used "only within the Jordan basin" (which rules out irrigating Israel's Negeb...
Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues (Victor LP). The great jazzman, his trumpet, and the voice that sounds like gravel tossed into a malted machine. There are a dozen tunes (originally recorded from 1933 to 1947), including Basin Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and Rockin' Chair, an exemplary duet with oldtime Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Other supporters: Pianists Teddy Wilson and Johnny Guarnieri, Trombonist Kid Ory, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, Drummer Cozy Cole...
...decision followed a five-year battle that had narrowed down to two leading contenders. Winner was the Pacific Northwest Pipe Line Corp.. headed by Pipeline Builder Ray Fish, who plans to run a line 1,466 miles from the San Juan Basin of Colorado and New Mexico to Bellingham. Wash. Fish has had plenty of experience. His Fish Engineering Corp. built two of the world's longest pipelines: the Transcontinental, from Texas to New York, and the Texas Illinois, serving the Chicago area. He plans to finance the new $160 million line with common and preferred stocks...