Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colorado: Even retiring Democratic Governor Ed Johnson flatly predicts Eisenhower. Ex-Governor Dan Thornton leads Democrat John Carroll for the Senate...
With a twist of a pipeline valve outside Seattle one day last week, Seattle's Mayor Gordon Clinton and Mayor George Culmbach of Everett, Wash, linked their cities' kitchens to natural-gas wells on the Colorado-New Mexico border 1,488 miles away. For the Northwest cities that received natural gas for the first time this month, the 18-m.p.h. surge of fuel from the San Juan Basin was as momentous as the first whirring of dynamos at Grand Coulee Dam in 1941. Long hobbled by power shortages, the Northwest in another year will be tapping...
...Some for Chicago." Over mountains and under rivers, from Colorado's 8,000-ft. Douglas Pass to the jagged canyons of Washington's Cascades, 10,000 pipeline workers over the past 15 months blasted and burrowed at the rate of 170 miles a month, 55 miles faster than the pace set by Fish when he built the 1,837-mile Texas-New York Transcontinental line in 1951. Crews worked in 35° below weather last winter, the Northwest's coldest in 50 years. With 2,500 miles of mainline and feeder pipe, Fish's Pacific Northwest...
...every side were signs of a rising Republican tide. New York Times surveyors, still making their way across the country, found Dwight Eisenhower leading in California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Colorado, gaining in a "close" Texas race, apparently out of the running only in Oklahoma. The Gallup poll reported Ike ahead with a 60% lead in a region embracing twelve northeastern states with 153 electoral votes; in 1952 he won 55.2% of the popular vote in those states...
...Portland, Ore.'s International Airport one afternoon last week, the arriving Columbine III coincided with a meteorological shift to fair weather. A hard rain stopped, blue sky reappeared, and the sun peeked out over Portland. For hard-running Oregon Republicans, like their brothers in Minnesota, Washington. California and Colorado, the pulse-quickening presence of Dwight Eisenhower made the political sun shine-a little brighter...