Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...general manager of Krupp Industries, suggested that the job of economic world uplift is too big for the investors of any one country, instead proposed that investors form a multi-nation investment association in much the same manner that six individual contracting companies joined together to build the Hoover Dam. Such pooling, said Industrialist Beitz, would provide "a great new source of investment capital." It would be a private world bank that would receive and that would lend local currencies for investment anywhere in the world...
TIME, President Eisenhower, the Supreme Court and other do-gooders may as well try-to dam up the Mississippi River as to force white and colored children to go to school together in the deep South...
...INDUSTRIAL development in history of Iran will remake country's oil-rich southwest at cost of $91 million, drawn mostly from oil royalties. Government has hired U.S. Development & Resources Corp., headed by former TVA Chairmen David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, to build a 460-ft.-high dam for power, flood control and irrigation, along with a complex of industrial plants and pipelines...
...dam a flood of foreign oil-and to soothe the politically potent ire of Texas' independent oilmen-the Interior Department two months ago set up a voluntary import curb on big oil companies. Last week the program's administrator. Navy Captain Matthew V. Carson Jr.. logged a mutinous crew and foul weather ahead. The companies were asked to cut imports 10% below their 1954-to-1956 levels, bring in only 755,700 bbl. of foreign crude a day. But Captain Carson's first statistics showed a daily August total of 982,300 bbl. The companies themselves...
During the last session of Congress, the two Oregonians Morsebergered such routine Northwest Democratic proposals as the federal high dam in Hells Canyon (aye) and such routine liberal stands as Scott McLeod's appointment as Ambassador to Ireland (nay). But on larger issues they were almost totally at issue. Neuberger favored the Eisenhower Doctrine, the Administration's budget requests, the civil rights bill. Fiery Wayne Morse opposed them all, testily told the folks back home that "Dick Neuberger was one of the Democratic liberals sucked in on the civil rights bill." Through the entire session, Neuberger more often...