Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, tension crackled in the room. Reporters peering down from the balcony could see what was on the one sheet of personal "DDE" stationery the President dropped on the desk. Printed in large letters and underlined with black grease pencil were the words Red Cross, Italians, Farm Bill, Upper Colorado. The fifth subject, doubly underlined, was "Personal...
...whispered "Please don't." After three minutes on the Red Cross, Ike spent a minute talking about the visit of Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi and Signora Gronchi. Then he wanted "to mention two bills that are before Congress," the farm program and the Upper Colorado River development bill. By that time, under the glare of the television lights, the temperature in the room was rising and the pressure on the reporters had risen to the breaking point. No one could be quite sure whether Ike merely wanted to get the other subjects...
...Upper Basin of the Colorado River is 110,000 square miles of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, all thirsting for water to develop their rich mineral resources and irrigate their potentially fine farmlands (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). For 50 years basin planners have talked about a vast power and reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National...
Last year the Upper Colorado project was finally approved by the U.S. Senate -but its chances for House passage this year seemed doubtful. To mute the cries of the conservationists, the bill's managers agreed to drop the Echo Park dam from the House measure. Last week, while the House debated the bill, President Eisenhower made a strong plea for the bill, "an opportunity at last to treat the whole great, mighty Colorado River as a single entity, to treat it on a basin basis instead of merely local and individual. I hope we can have positive action...
Positive action came the next day: the House, by a surprising 256-to-136 vote, passed the Upper Colorado bill. It authorized spending $756 million on four major dams and on participating projects that would irrigate 132,000 acres of new land and supply additional water to 230,000 acres already under irrigation. Power from the dams will be purchased from the Federal Government by private utilities. After the House vote, the Upper Colorado bill was sent to a conference committee, where differences in the House and Senate versions were to be ironed...