Word: colorado
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Watkins proceeded to put in a plug for something near to his heart: the billion-dollar power and reclamation project proposed for the Upper Colorado River Basin. There was, said Watkins, nothing socialistic about the idea; private utilities in the West were ready and eager to buy the power. Moreover, backing by the President would help refute some of the talk about the Administration's "giveaway" policy on natural resources. "That's a good idea," said Ike, turning to an assistant and giving the necessary order...
...President did mention the Upper Colorado Basin project in his State of the Union speech. He went even farther than Watkins had hoped: last week, in his budget message, the President recommended that $5,000,000 be appropriated to get engineering started...
Treasure House. Ike's powerful support was thereby given to a plan which has been talked about for some 50 years and has been passed over by four previous Congresses, largely because of unrelenting opposition from 1) Southern California power interests who profit under the present distribution of Colorado River water and 2) conservationists (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant III) who for years charged (erroneously) that the big dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood out the dinosaur remains in the national park there. They have since shifted their argument to the claim that if Dinosaur National Monument...
...Colorado Springs...
Welland's proposal came after Eddie Jeremiah, Dartmouth's hockey coach, called the N.C.A.A. hockey championship a "Frankenstein" which should be "junked." He felt the tournament, usually held at Colorado Springs, Col., was no longer a national or U.S. championship because of the domination of Canadian hockey talent...