Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public-power and private-power advocates have quarreled and quibbled for a decade over whether the Federal Government should 1) build a power dam in mile-deep Hells Canyon on the Northwest's Snake River, or 2) let the privately owned Idaho Power Co. do the job. The issue seemed settled last year when the Senate scotched, 51 to 41, a Democratic bill authorizing a federal Hells Canyon dam costing upwards of $300 million. Idaho Power, which got the required licenses from the Federal Power Commission in 1955, went ahead with plans to build three smaller dams...
...Office of Defense Mobilization decision to grant Idaho Power a multimillion-dollar fast write-off tax break on the Snake River project (TIME, May 13) started the issue sizzling again. Encouraged, Northern Democrats in the Senate revived their Hells Canyon bill, although the federal dam it called for would flood Idaho Power's three dam sites...
...harbor, where a flotilla of 7,000 yachts worth $30 million lies at anchor, the nation's shorelines, lakes and waterways are dotted with boats; on the Great Lakes, the Detroit area alone counts 100,000; uncounted thousands more skim across the enormous man-made lakes formed by dam projects in the Tennessee Valley, the Colorado and Missouri Rivers. Says one deep-water sailor: "Thousands of farm families, who wouldn't know an auxiliary cutter from a lightship, are literally sailing over the bounding prairie -and loving every minute...
...English-bred, TIME [May 20] has blundered and been unhorsed. The colt, by the Irish stallion Migoli out of the Irish mare Majideh, was foaled and reared at the Aga Khan's stud in County Kildare, Ireland, at whose studs in that county both his sire and dam were foaled...
...Korean war-need no longer be tougher than restrictions on Russia. Said one White House staffer: "Let's face it. Behind the President's remarks is his very real thinking that it is idle to attempt indefinitely to arrest the flow of water downhill. Every dam must have its outlet...