Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spent more than $1,396,000,000 in the basin (compared with $855,751,165 in the first seven years of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...Army Engineers insist that lower basin levee systems must be reinforced by big river flood-control dams, like the $87 million Tuttle Creek project on the Big Blue River north of Manhattan, Kans. Authorized in 1938 as the key unit in the control of the Kansas (Kaw) River Basin, it was blocked for 14 years by angry farmers whose land would be flooded, and who argued instead for a federally financed program of soil conservation (contouring, terracing) and small detention dams on the land to hold the water where it fell. Each year the late Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas...
...tributaries were controlled, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 to start Tuttle Creek Dams. Embattled Blue Valley residents still hope to block the project's completion, and their warning that "if Tuttle Creek is built, there is a shadow and threat over every fertile valley in the Missouri Basin" has not gone unnoticed in farmhouses that have been marked for condemnation in other river valleys if the "big dam" principle wins...
...arid western states insist that enough water be kept in their areas to meet the needs of future development. Spokesmen like Montana's big, bluff Governor John W. Bonner contend that this will be impossible if water is "sucked out" of upper valley lands for a lower basin navigation channel and the huge power dams. Downriver opponents such as Missouri's Governor Forrest Smith reply that proposed irrigation projects in the West may cut off lower valley drinking water...
...them the old habeas corpus mandamus potatus. Don't try to be required reading. Be a diversion . . . You remind me of an old ham in vaudeville stretching his laughs and sweating his bows and keeping the other acts hanging around cracking peanuts or laundering their tights in the basin when it would have been more effective to quit on a loud laugh five minutes sooner . . . The trouble with you, Pegler, is when you have got nothing more to say you say it, and say it, and say it. when the thing to do is to stop right here...