Word: basins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Westinghouse Electric Corp. went a $4,000,000 contract for a saltwater conversion plant capable of producing 1,000,000 gal. of fresh water per day; a new catchment basin to collect rain water will also be built, along with an underground reservoir holding 4,000,000 gal. in reserve. By August "Gitmo" will be self-sufficient, no longer concerned about the Cuban waterworks that Castro shut off in reprisal for the seizure of four Cuban fishing boats violating Florida waters...
First, the commission ruled out Nez Perce because it would have killed more migrating Chinook salmon and steelhead fish than the High Mountain Sheep Dam. Some 200,000 fishermen and conservationists in the Northwest are already alarmed at the toll that such great dams in the Columbia River Basin as Bonneville and Grand Coulee are exacting on the $12 million-a-year salmon business. Second, the five Kennedy-appointed commissioners unanimously knocked down the Government's dam-building bid on the grounds that Pacific Northwest could do everything the Government proposed to do, and faster. And finally...
...commissaries, bowling and Hollywood movies at the service centers. Zonians go in for such back-home activities as the V.F.W., Lions Club and Boy Scouts. They have their own schools (including a junior college), country clubs and well-kept golf courses; 1,600 boats are registered at the yacht basin, and late-model cars are the rule, not the exception...
...Gate") Teagarden, 58, jazzman somewhere close to "Chicago," between Dixieland and swing, one of the great trombonists of all time, a lumbering Texan famed since the late 1920s for his staccato, yet melodic instrumental style and a sad, reedy singing voice that made classics of songs of the period (Basin Street Blues), new favorites of old standbys (The St. James Infirmary); of pneumonia and cirrhosis of the liver; in New Orleans...
...uninitiated, the Beaties are four shaggy-haired youths from Liverpool, England, whose "pudding basin" haircuts and unique Liverpuglian sound are causing more of a stir in Britain than Mandy Rice-Davies. The group has touched off riots and mass hysteris throughout the Isles. Even the Queen Mother digs...