Word: co
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Interior Committee voted down, by a narrow 16 to 14, Idaho Congresswoman Gracie Pfost's bill to build a federal high dam in Hells Canyon. The Senate had already approved such a dam on the same Snake River stretch where the Idaho Power Co. is building the first of three privately financed low dams. The House committee demolished the high dam after reading a letter in which President Eisenhower said: "It is inconceivable to me that serious consideration is being given in some quarters to stopping this development, depriving the Northwest of power which is badly needed...
...produced a classic capsule example of how much personal prosperity can be skimmed off state highway construction, the nation's booming, graft-prone major public-works project. Witnesses testified that two top members of the Republican-run Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission had teamed up with Manu-Mine Research & Development Co. (initial capitalization: $4,300) in a plan to defraud the commission of turnpike construction funds. With then-Turnpike Commission Chairman Thomas J. Evans' nephew, Charles Stickler, as president, Manu-Mine had cozily acted as the commission's consultant, contractor (without competitive bidding) and official inspector...
...early 1950s he granted a British-run subsidiary of the Iraq Petroleum Co. a concession to drill for oil in the Omani hinterland. But he was not quite master in his own house. The fanatic Ibadhis in the hills, resentful of the Sultanate rule, had long ago elected a new dynasty of Imams and in 1920, after decades of hard fighting had won from the then Sultan a grudging acknowledgment of the Imam's rule in the mountains. So when two years ago the Sultan's foreign oil drillers went to work near the northern border, the Imam...
...more than 0.25% of the distance-about 600 miles, unofficially credited to the Lockheed X17. The first vehicle to make a really big stride into space will probably be a cheap, unstreamlined, unglamorous, four-stage job assembled out of familiar rocket hardware by Aeronutronic Systems, Inc., a Ford Motor Co. subsidiary at Glendale, Calif. Its gimmick: it will start at 100,000 ft. from a balloon...
Spectacle & Sport. But even the doubters admit that Levy & Co. and their durable pacers and trotters put on a good show. Harness racing, maintains Levy, is a more spectacular sport than flat racing. "The interval between our races isn't boring. These horses are out there all the time, running back and forth in front of the stands, warming up. Some of them run five, six miles a night before the race. You can't do that with a thoroughbred. And the lights all make it look better. In the next ten years, harness racing will double...