Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ford was particularly incensed with opposition among some liberals in Congress. Democratic Senator George McGovern of South Dakota claimed that "90% of the Vietnamese refugees would be better off going back to their own land" because only "a handful of government leaders were in any real danger of reprisals." Democratic Representative Elizabeth Holtzman of New York urged the U.S. to bar "persons who may have engaged in misappropriating U.S. funds, run tiger cages or carried out the torture of political prisoners...
...Permits for strip mining on alluvial valley floors west of the 100th meridian (which runs from North Dakota to Texas) will not be issued for operations that threaten existing or potential farming or ranching activities...
...many coal companies, these western areas, chiefly in Montana, Wyoming and North Dakota, have been the land of the future. Reserves estimated at 32 billion tons lie close to the surface and are easy to mine. The low sulfur content of the coal makes it attractive to pollution-prone utilities. The bill throws into doubt, at least for the moment, many of the coal companies' plans for expansion. "It is fair to say that this bill was not designed to facilitate the mining of western coal but rather to prevent it," complains Donald Cook, chairman of the nation...
Certainly the people of this nation have no desire to see agriculture take on the same monopoly structure now so evident in the oil industry. We have already seen what a shared monopoly can do when it wants to raise prices. James Abourezk U.S. Senator, South Dakota Washington...
...Operation. Only one such bank now exists in the U.S.: the 56-year-old Bank of North Dakota, which is a giant in its area (four times larger than any other bank in that state) but a midget nationally. The proposed New York State Bank would be a much bigger operation. It would get all of the $3 billion or so in state government deposits now scattered among commercial banks, making it immediately one of the 25 biggest banks in the country. It would be permitted to underwrite municipal bonds, invest in job-producing industries, manage trust portfolios, and solicit...