Word: controlled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This CVA, as the Administration sees it, would take over the power-and-flood-control operations of a fistful of such federal agencies as the Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior. It would coordinate these activities into a pattern that is now significantly lacking in the Columbia Valley; it would replace the timid splinter programs of the federal bureaus with a unified plan on the order of the one that worked so well in the Tennessee Valley...
...private enterprise and the existing federal agencies were providing the Northwest with cheap, abundant power, and if they were effectively handling the problems of irrigation, navigation, conservation, and flood control, then a CVA would be superfluous. But private business and the bureaus are not doing even an acceptable job in these fields. So it is up to the Government--which is already socialistically entrenched in the Columbia Valley--to do its work better through the medium of an independent agency like the CVA. If the Eighty-First Congress manages to break through the power-lobby smokescreen to pass...
Among the other wartime experiences of Conant brought out in the article is his December 1945 trip to Moscow with Secretary of State Byrnes, to discuss atomic energy control with the Russians. He was entertained at a Christmas Eve dinner, "a supergala performance," in which Molotov served as toastmaster. After wading through a large number of toasts in "oceans of vodka, champagne, wine, and brandy," Molotov allegedly stood up and said "here is this man Conant, who probably has an atomic bomb in his pocket with which he could blow us all to tiny pieces..." He never finished. Stalin jumped...
...passage: "[The god is here] Noah or Neptune managing the sea. The point is to get puns for both violent disorder and building a structure . . . Cope-coping-stone and to manage, groynes-breakwaters, the meet of Gothic arches, the sex of the horses. The same kind of control is needed inside your head, a place also round and not well known (miner-"minor"), and it requires chiefly a clarifying connection with the outside world, e.g., by the arches of the eye, whose iris (rainbow) promises safety as to Noah. The externalised Logos [Word] is a sort of promise that...
Streit, a journalist at Geneva in the days of the League of Nations, has long been crusading for a "more effective form" of international organization. His book, "Union Now," advocates a union of the democratic nations, with control over foreign policy, currency, international trade, and military matters delegated to a federal union...