Word: contoocook
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...ambitious Lawrence dam partners now have several more hydropower sites in New England under development. They are building a $6.3 million project on the Contoocook River near Concord, N.H., and a $2 million one on the Wells River in Vermont. The two dams will serve a total of about 5,000 customers...
...were the one who had just been awarded the Eagle badge. But he devoted most of his energy to New Hampshire. He climbed a 5-ft. ladder to shake hands with three girls who were leaning out of a second-story window in Dover, dropped in at a Contoocook beauty parlor to chat with the ladies, and only once during the week did he seem slightly rattled. That came during a visit to Mount Sunapee State Park, when he was shaking hands with skiers and a six-year-old boy protested: "Rockefeller, will you get off my skis...
Next Tuesday, New Hampshire voters will gather for town meetings to decide local issues (e.g., should the old covered bridge over the Contoocook in the town of Boscawen be demolished?). Then, with the political eyes of the U.S. on them, they will step over to the polling booths to 1) select delegates to the national conventions, 2) cast their ballots for the man they prefer for President. By next morning the first real straws will be eddying in the 1952 political wind...
...regional flavor as distinctive as the home towns of many of their senders: Contoocook, N.H.; Battle Mountain, Nevada; Olive Branch, Mississippi; Pocatello, Idaho; Vienna, Georgia...
Four business men are backing a winter sports recreational center located on Route 103 in Warner, near Contoocook. Work is in progress on an almost natural toboggan slide 1000 feet long, practice slopes, a slalom course and a 700-feet ski tow. Flood lights are being installed to illuminate the whole development for night...