Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pick-Sloan irrigation projects have been attacked as unpractical, uneconomical and unnecessary-and as vigorously defended. In South Dakota, farmers oppose the 250-mile-long storage reservoir planned for the big Oahe Dam across the Missouri near Pierre (pronounced Peer). Some insist that the reservoir's water will never be used for farming because the easily eroded South Dakota soil is not suitable for irrigation...
Under federal law, the Bureau of Reclamation must distribute Government power by a system of priorities, with publicly owned plants and cooperatives, like REA, the favored customers. Thus, South Dakota fears that Nebraska, a 100% public power state, will get the lion's share of Fort Randall's power. Nebraska, in turn, fears it may lose many of its best municipal customers who might buy direct from Randall...
...foreign sources for uranium (now principally the Belgian Congo and Canada) by imports from Australia and South Africa. ¶ Domestically, the AEC has developed uranium mines on the Colorado Plateau (where it is building 783 miles of new roads), has found good prospects in the Black Hills of South Dakota. ¶ In Joliet, Ill., the Blockson Chemical Co. will soon begin full-scale production of uranium from a new source, phosphoric acid. ¶ Barely started on its new $3.5 billion expansion program, the AEC already employs about 3% of the total construction force of the nation...
...next test of mass inoculations with gamma globulin as a protection against the paralyzing aftereffects of poliomyelitis, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis picked the area around Sioux City (Woodbury County, Iowa, and Dakota County, Neb.). It hoped to give the needle this week to 16,500 youngsters, aged one to eleven...
...picked up one more vote each from New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Washington and Alaska, two votes each in North Carolina, Virginia and Wyoming, three votes in Nevada...