Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...strategic and military situation in various areas of the world, the Far East situation and things of that nature. He wished to get my point of view. I had a delightful luncheon and a pleasant talk." ¶ Approved the $930,343,000 development project for the Upper Colorado River Basin, his Administration's first large-scale power-irrigation system. ¶ Gave his permission for installation of a CinemaScope system in the White House screening room. The $10,000 curved screen, a gift of the film industry, will be the smallest ever built...
...From a loudspeaker, cut in on a long-distance telephone line, came the voice of South Dakota's Governor Sigurd Anderson 1,200 miles away: "Thank you, Mr. President. Fort Randall's first generator is now on the line, producing more power for the great Missouri Basin in the heart of America...
...Senators Margaret Chase Smith and Frederick Payne backed the St. Lawrence Seaway. Last month Interior Secretary Douglas McKay came out for the billion-dollar Colorado River Storage project. Coincidental result: the support of Colorado's powerful Eugene Millikin, along with other Senators from the five Colorado Basin states...
Picture if you can, angry hordes of Canucks storming down from the hills of the St. Lawrence Basin, their short stumpy legs marching determinately through New Hampshire snows, their close-set eyes fixed rigidly on the Cambridge area. Dr. Hunt had better pack up his Complete Works of Margaret Meade immediately and head for the security of the Anglo Saxon hinterlands. Plerre A. Provost...
SINCLAIR OIL, along with Carter Oil and Socony-Vacuum, has just brought in the first well in what may be a rich new oilfield in the Williston Basin 100 miles northwest of Bismarck...