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Committee for Economic Development had spoken to the same effect. Marriner Eccles, most outspoken of the governors of the FRB, also stood for damming up the flow of money, but the FRB itself did nothing decisive; considering the imposing figures on the other side of the question, it kept its...
There are ways out of this mess. President Truman could veto the current bloated appropriation, but this is unlikely, since he has his constituents too. There must be a reorganization of the whole process of damming and dredging before the economy which Congress so cloquently embraces and so purposefully blocks...
Though man has never yet succeeded in damming that river, he has created, at moments in history, a few things so enduringly peaceful that they seem independent of its red flow. The monumental art created in the 15th Century's peculiar climate has stood through all kinds of historical...
Thus in 518 A.D., the Chinese poet, Po Chui, expressed his alarm at the roaring Yangtze gorges in Central China, the bottleneck through which the waters of the 3,000-mile-Iong river pour out of the Szechwan basin and Tibetan foothills onto the flat paddies of China's...
Americans and Canadians have talked for years about deepening and damming the 1,900-mile St. Lawrence Waterway, thus providing "maritime coastlines" for their Midwests and cheap hydroelectric power. Nothing ever happened. In 1934, the U.S. Senate failed to produce the two-thirds vote necessary to ratify a treaty that...