Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Venetian Blinds. Dr. Garfield had worked out his group medicine formula through medical care plans at the Los Angeles Aqueduct, Parker Dam and Imperial Dam projects before Kaiser hired him at Grand Coulee. He had found that complete medical care for workmen in their own hospitals could be financed by a 5?-a-day payroll tax plus a percentage of the industrial insurance premiums. The insurance companies were glad to chip in, as the good medical care cut compensation payments...
...speak, that it would itself "go West and grow up with the country." So for years we have been calling national attention to all kinds of news unfolding in the West-from Upton Sinclair and Harry Bridges to Henry Kaiser, from Ham-and-Eggs and Hetch-Hetchy to Bonneville Dam. And percentagewise we now have more readers on the Coast than any other front-rank magazine...
...broad sketch of the veto message, were told to go to work on Republicans and Democrats alike with one big argument: "There is going to be a certain amount of inflation, we all know that. It is here already. But we've got to keep the dam propped up some way. If we override this veto, no matter what happens that is wrong, Congress will be blamed for it. . . ." Buttonholing went on half the night...
...next great Congressional debate on the international position of the U.S. will come this fall. Once the question for debate was: Should the U.S. cooperate with the other United Nations? Now all that is over the dam. The people have said yes (the most recent Gallup poll showed 74% for an international police force). The Republican Party generally has cleared its skirts of isolationism; with this refuge gone, only a few really bigoted isolationists remain...
Because the King was not there, it was Queen Elizabeth, in a plain grey dress prettied with orchids, who from the dais of Buckingham Palace's Grand Hall be stowed decorations on Empire heroes-first among them R.A.F. Wing Commander Guy Gibson, leader of dam-destroying planes over Germany. Possessor of letters patent making her one of five Councilors of State during the King's Mediterranean tour, the Queen said to Gibson: "The King has asked me to say how sorry he is not to be able to give the Victoria Cross to you personally...