Word: california
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...furnish electricity to the seven Colorado Basin States (Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming...
...protect from floods the inhabitants of California's Imperial Valley, which is below the Colorado's bed-level...
...difference in the cultures of Arizona and California-rancher v. realtor...
...facts, that only 2½% of the Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...
...private interests opposing the Government's entry to the electricity industry. So widespread, so penetrating, so energetic, so determined, so covert has been the propaganda of these interests that, as it is exposed bit by bit by the Federal Trade Commission's current investigation, the issue between California and Arizona has been twisted from its cultural base...