Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Associated Press, surveying the Thanksgiving Day situation, reported the following score: 22 States for Franklin Roosevelt and Nov. 23; 23 (including all New England) for tradition and the last Thursday in November. Mississippi is undecided ; both Thursdays will be observed in Texas and Colorado...
...public could forget about it the better off it would be. But this week, while doubtful Louisville citizens could look south into the TVA area and wonder how the greatest public ownership project in U. S. history would turn out, they could look west to plushy, conservative Colorado Springs, Colo., and see how one public ownership enterprise did turn out. For Colorado Springs (pop. 35,000) had just paid off the last $181,000 of the $2,200,000 debt it assumed when it began city operation of its gas and electric light plant 14 years...
What smart municipal management can do with a public utility Colorado Springs citizens heard when they gathered in the city auditorium one night this week to celebrate the mortgage burning. Its symbol was on the stage: shy, onetime sheriff, Mayor George G. Birdsall, who in 18 years on the City Council has drawn no salary, has gigged the city for not a single cent of expense money. Its mouthpiece was beside him: stocky, blue-eyed onetime Utility Engineer Earl Louis Mosley, who has been the city's light and gas plant manager since it was taken over from United...
...past ten years Earl Mosley has also been City Manager (salary for all his jobs: $7,500 a year) and he knew what he was talking about. Colorado Springs beamed as he read the record...
...Colorado Springs' thriving water department (also city-operated) it has paid $610,000 for use of water gathered from the sides of Pikes Peak, which turns the wheels of the hydro plants on the way down to the settling basins...