Word: branche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million-downstream at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley. FPC said it favors a far bigger $450 million dam farther downstream at Nez Perce, which would produce 1,672,000 kw. and store 3,900,000 acre-feet of water, also curb the flood-prone Salmon River, a wild branch of the Snake. Though FPC left Nez Perce open to private construction by Pacific Northwest Power, a four-company combine, powermen feared that such a dam would almost certainly need heavy federal financing because of its cost...
...Capitol Hill last week President Eisenhower sent what may be 1958's most important-and most fiercely contested-Administration proposal. Due to expire on June 30 is the reciprocal trade act (real name: Trade Agreements Act), the charter under which the executive branch occasionally makes moderate cuts in U.S. tariffs if other countries make cuts in their tariffs on U.S. imports. The President asked Congress to: 1) extend the act for "a minimum" of five years instead of the usual three, 2) grant him the authority to cut tariffs as much as 10% a year-but not more than...
...soon a member of the board of directors of the Bank of Manhattan, Continental Oil Co. and more than a dozen other large industrial and financial corporations. Wartime ("dollar-a-year") special assistant to the administrator of the lend-lease program, later director of its British Empire branch, prominent Roman Catholic Layman Griffin was longtime (1947-57) president of the English-Speaking Union and co-chairman of the American Fund...
...beloved and unerring military hero. The withholding of the Gaither Report deprives the nation of its right to know and the Congress of the facts upon which to base action. The Report also contains recommendations which are certainly needed. In the name of the sanctity of the executive branch, the President has committed a political mistake and demonstrated faulty leadership...
...spelled with a capital E. They are johnny-on-the-spot wilh Rotary Club optimism, football teamwork. Dedication-to-America Week, and such as that: but many of them don't know [a thing] when it comes to a real teacher of English, history, geology or any other branch of knowledge. Despite their degrees and positions, they are puerile-minded. Nearly all of them are stuffed with religiosity-which is not religion...