Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to the glittering Senate victories of Chuck Percy and Bob Grif fin, the voters re-elected a phalanx of Republican regulars: Iowa's Jack Miller, Kansas' James B. Pearson, South Dakota's Karl Mundt, Nebraska's Carl Curtis. Indeed, it was a boomerang attempt by Lyndon Johnson to dislodge Curtis that led to one of six gubernatorial victories in the region...
...NORTH DAKOTA (no Governor or Senate races...
...SOUTH DAKOTA GOVERNOR 42% of the vote Boe (R) 37,000 Chamberlin (D) 31,000 U.S. SENATOR Mundt (R) (winner) Wright...
What little restraint there is on spending has resulted not from Johnson's pleas, but from inflation and the tight money it has brought. High construction costs forced South Dakota to delay a $125,000 building for a school for the blind; a $70.5 million New Orleans expressway project was held up a second time when no underwriters could be found; bond issues were deferred in Cincinnati because interest rates were just too steep...
Spur from Subsidy. Today's atomic installations go up in units large enough to light whole cities, or even states. At Lake Keowee, S.C., Duke Power Co. is building a $157 million plant with Babcock & Wilcox reactors that will generate 1,664,000 kw.-enough for South Dakota, Vermont and Nevada. Commonwealth Edison is busy expanding its Dresden plant 50 miles southwest of Chicago into an 1,800,000-kw. complex capable of serving a population equal to that of Baltimore and San Francisco combined. As an increasing number of power companies do, Atlantic City Electric, Philadelphia Electric, Delmarva...