Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With their two pieces of earth-moving equipment, a foundation gang last week pushed a rough track (see map) through the jungle at the rate of half a mile a day. The foundation's goal is a road running 1,100 miles across the Amazonian basin to Manaus, and linking the river by land with Brazil's industrial metropolis of Sáo Paulo, 1,700 miles to the south. Flying over five emergency airfields that foundation men have opened along the way with their machetes. Brazilian air force planes next week will start the first scheduled...
Oilmen acknowledge Alfred Jacobsen, Amerada Petroleum's president, as king of the explorers. After others had vainly scouted the Williston Basin since the early '20s, Jacobsen last year sank the well that tapped one of the country's richest oil pools. But shrewd Oilman Jacobsen did not rest on the triumph; he already had his seismograph crews roaming north west Alberta in a hunt for new treasure. Oilmen have long guessed that an oil-rich coral-reef formation underlies Alberta's Peace River Basin, about 200 miles northwest of Canada's vast Leduc field...
...hottest question in the valley has long been how to administer the program. Basin leaders, including many Pick-Sloan supporters, worry over the loose, voluntary Interagency setup. They see that stronger central control will be needed when the interlocking chain of reservoirs and power lines reaches operation stage and when decisions will have to be made among conflicting demands for water...
...suggested in 1949 by the Hoover Commission, which recommended a new Bureau of Natural Resources to be made up of the Army Engineers, Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. A year later, President Truman's Water Resources Policy Commission proposed a basin commission with an independent chairman appointed by the President. In 1951, valley governors, led by Nebraska's Val Peterson, came out for a ten-state interstate compact, to include one federal member (with ten votes) on its "water master" governing board...
...being done. The question is, how and by whom?" And, since most of the money for the work must come from elsewhere in the nation, the entire U.S. has a great stake in the development program and the future of the Big Muddy's basin...