Word: clapp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...companies. Under Iran's $1.1 billion development program, made possible by oil revenues, regional schemes will supply irrigation, fertilizer, electric power and light industry. The ambitious Khuzistan project in southwestern Iran is under the able guidance of a U.S. firm headed by David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who pioneered TVA. The development plans are good, but their allotted revenues have sometimes been borrowed for other purposes, and the Shah himself wishes that there were more "visual impact" schemes to give his poverty-stricken people a feeling of hope. Despite large oil revenues, the Iranian economy has been...
Last January Lazard Freres & Co. and Chase International Investment Corp. sent a mission to Iran to set up a financial center to provide credits for investors. In southwestern Iran, the government authorized the U.S. Development and Resources Corp. founded by former TVA Chiefs David Lilienthal and Gordon Clapp, to work on plans for a $5 million dam, a 375,000-acre irrigation project, a sugar mill and refinery, Iran's first major electric transmission line, and a gas pipeline from the Agha Jari oilfield...
Married. Althea Louise Brough, 35, national women's singles tennis champion in 1947, Wimbledon champion in 1948, '49, '50, and '55; and Dentist Alan T. Clapp, 35, of Pasadena; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
BIGGEST INDUSTRIAL development in history of Iran will remake country's oil-rich southwest at cost of $91 million, drawn mostly from oil royalties. Government has hired U.S. Development & Resources Corp., headed by former TVA Chairmen David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, to build a 460-ft.-high dam for power, flood control and irrigation, along with a complex of industrial plants and pipelines...
...because he was working and only "put his head out" to see what was going on. The next day, with still no clues, the investigators again came to the Medical School for a more thorough search. This time they investigated Webster's labs, but when Officer Derastus Clapp came to the "back room," the professor cautioned him about the "dangerous articles" in the room. Webster then steered attention from the area by pointing out another room...