Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...through the assembly ("This," said one legislator, "has been the hardest-working, lightest-drinking session in Kentucky's history"): 1) a merit system of state employment; 2) a realistic conflict-of-interest law; 3) a fair-elections law, requiring voting machines throughout the state; 4) the first statewide cleanup of Kentucky's voting rolls; 5) an average $1,100 raise in teachers' salaries and a probe of the inept education system; 6) establishment of a $4,000,000 business-development corporation ("little RFC") and a $2,000,000 industrial-loan authority to bolster the state...
...medicinal odor of phenol poured out of coke ovens. For decades the river cities and towns complained to each other about the mess coming from upstream, contributed to the mess downstream. Then a determined Cincinnati pressagent, rushing in where poets refused to paddle, launched a 25-year cleanup drive that is only now beginning to restore the Ohio's purity and beauty...
Indiana-born Pressagent Hudson Biery had always considered the Ohio one of his charity clients. In 1935 he got the backing of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, was made chairman of a committee that set out to sell a cleanup program, shocked regional audiences and newspaper readers with crude, graphic facts. One quart in every gallon of Ohio water was raw sewage, equal to "700 dead horses floating by Cincinnati every day," he said. "We in Cincinnati can always tell when people in Pittsburgh have had asparagus for dinner...
...results of the Ohio cleanup are slow but measurable. Bellevue's Manhattan Beach can already see half a mile of clean sand ready for next summer's swimmers, expects the slime to retreat about 1,000 ft. a year. Boating is booming on the Ohio and its branches as never before-and even water skiers dare to chance...
Substantial Arsenal. Despite commendable cleanup efforts on the part of broadcasters themselves, Rogers called for positive federal action. Some suggestions...