Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...read the printed signs on the desks of high-ranking Army, Navy and Air Force officers at the Colorado Springs headquarters of the North American Air Defense Command, the combined-services organization set up last fall to run the continent's $18 billion air-defense system. Hailed in its early months as a model of interservice cooperation, by last week NORAD was proving itself something quite different: a classic example of the sort of interservice rivalry that President Eisenhower's defense-reorganization plan is designed to prevent...
FIRST OIL PIPELINE to California is starting to carry crude from Four Corners region, where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah meet. The 16-in. line, which runs 750 miles, will pump up to 70,000 bbl. per day, will ease oil deficiency on West Coast and spur exploration for new sources in Four Corners area...
...Vermont visit from snowy Colorado, where she ranches with husband Dave, Skier Andrea Mead Lawrence, winner of two gold medals in the 1952 Winter Olympics, showed off the four reasons why she may not race any more: Cortlandt, 5, Deirdre, 2, Matthew, 3, and Leslie, 10 months...
...Jersey's Clifford Case argued that the Fulbright bill really would provide little new employment in depressed communities and could easily be held up. Illinois' Everett McKinley Dirksen pointed out that immediate Senate action was inconsequential since the House had not even taken up the bill. Colorado's Gordon Allott sniffed that a billion dollars was not to be lightly allocated in the course of one afternoon. Recounting noses, Knowland decided to bring his motion to a vote, carried it by a narrow...
...President to sign. Nebraska's Carl Curtis backed him up, and North Dakota's Milton Young remarked tartly that President Eisenhower had certainly not been talking about farm-prop cuts during the 1956 campaign. Quite the contrary, claimed Young, and added portentously: "Explain that to your farmers." Colorado's Gordon Allott suggested that the caucus might take advantage of the recession by casting the farm freeze as one of the antirecession pump-primers currently in favor with both the Administration and Congress. Utah's Arthur Watkins argued against a caucus resolution favoring the farm-freeze bill...