Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passing judgment, two salient facts must be kept in mind. First is the fact that most vote-seeking pension advocates fully realize the hare-brained qualities, the financial impossibilities of their schemes. They have seen the Colorado fiasco. They have heard the grave warnings of most reputable economists. Still they wave the pension banners, keeping strangely silent on the question of paying the bill...
...made a cataclysm in the barometric topography of the U. S. New England suddenly found itself at the bottom of an atmospheric abyss between two great plateaus (see map). The effect would hardly have been much more catastrophic had a new Grand Canyon of the Colorado suddenly opened in the Connecticut Valley...
Marked lightly for Purging, not openly fought, unPurged-Indiana's Van Nuys, Missouri's Clark, Nevada's McCarran, Colorado's Adams, Connecticut's Lonergan...
...Colorado, Senator Alva B. Adams (80% New Dealer lightly marked for Purging) was nominated without opposition. His opponent in November: Republican Archibald A. Lee of Denver. Renominated for Governor was crude Democrat Teller Ammons, to face Republican Ralph L. Carr...
...Texas the same day, President John W. Carpenter of Texas Power & Light, an affiliate of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., penned a similar letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority, TVA of the Southwest. Allegedly sponsoring flood control, LCRA has urged a number of municipalities along the Colorado River to build their own power plants with PWA aid. Texas Power & Light has 1,277 miles of power line serving 13,200 customers in this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying...