Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blueprint, the dam had been known as Boulder, since it was to be built across the Colorado River in Boulder Canyon. In 1930, when construction started, Interior Secretary Wilbur named it Hoover after his boss. When the Democrats moved in, Secretary Harold Ickes decided that Wilbur had had no right to rename the dam, changed it back to Boulder-despite the fact that the site had been shifted 20 miles southward to Black Canyon...
...good or ill, the Senate had made up its mind. Firmly, it voted down the attempt of Colorado's Edwin C. Johnson to eliminate military aid. Then, 41 days after President Truman's challenge, the Senate approved the Truman Doctrine...
...Republicans, the information was encouraging. But it scarcely changed their plans as the Senate Finance Committee, headed by Colorado's Eugene Millikin, this week set to work on the House tax bill. The 1948 budget, they figured, could safely be cut by $5¼ billion, no more. Next year's revenues were expected to run $2½ to $3 billion over former estimates. Allowing $1 billion for foreign commitments, $2 billion for debt reduction, taxes could safely be reduced by about $3 billion and still leave a comfortable cushion of cash against a possible recession or other eventualities...
...addition to its laboratories and observatories here in Cambridge, the department maintains three observing stations at strategic positions in the northern and southern hemispheres; at Oak Ridge, 25 miles north-east of Cambridge, where Astronomy concentrees work once a week; at Climax, 11,500 feet high in the Colorado Rockies; and at Bloemfontaine, South Africa...
That began the real news of the week. Then, on one of the Senate's days off, freshman Senator Raymond E. Baldwin (ex-governor of Connecticut) sent a letter to Colorado's Eugene D. Millikin, chairman of the Republican Conference of Senators...