Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME'S Nov. 7 Letters column, Congressman Sam Coon claimed that "nonfederal interests" could participate in his partnership bill for the John Day Dam. The Congressman failed to reveal to your readers that the Rural Electric Cooperatives of Oregon, for example, have described his bill as "a scheme to turn over the rivers of the Northwest to private monopoly...
private power partisans in the Pacific Northwest. Pro-public advocates cry that the slightest evidence of private enterprise is a "giveaway" of the natural resources bequeathed "the people'' by the Almighty. Pro-private advocates shrill that an inch of dam-building aid from any government source amounts to a mile of "creeping socialism" and a rape of the "American Way." Under such a bombardment of absolutes, the electorate often loses the real problem: how to get cheaper electric power under specific conditions in specific places by means public, or private, or in any combination thereof...
Watching on television the first 600 German prisoners returning from the Soviet Union, Hendrik van Dam, Secretary-General of the Jewish Council in Germany, saw a lined, familiar face show up on the screen. A few minutes later his phone rang, and an excited voice shouted...
...face Van Dam and many others had cause to remember belonged to Nazi Gynecologist Carl Clauberg, an SS general and onetime chief of the infamous Block Ten medical section at Auschwitz concentration camp, where he carried out brutal sterilization experiments on Jewish women, killing many of them...
...offered by Drs. William E. Petersen and Berry Campbell, who have been working on it (with a dozen colleagues off and on) for ten years. Paul ("Magic Bullet") Ehrlich had shown that antibodies, missing from the blood of calves at birth, can pass to the young in the dam's colostrum. It had been thought that the human species, whether babe or grown man, was unable to pick up these protective antibodies. Not so, say Petersen and Campbell: man and a slew of barnyard beasts and birds can benefit from them. A cow that is vaccinated...