Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Zealots' Creed. After a night's sleep and a breakfast pep talk to western Republicans, the President headed a 30-car caravan that rolled through spectacular canyons to the site of the $287 million McNary Dam, on the Oregon border. On hand to flip a switch activating the dam's fifth generator, the President took occasion to define one of the West's most vital issues: public v. private power. It was a bold, effective, potentially dangerous speech...
Political Field Day. Ike's McNary Dam speech was topped by the frankly political address he saved for the next night, when he appeared before some 20,000 in the jammed Hollywood Bowl. Again and again he pounded home the same theme: a strong Republican Congress is necessary to carry out the Eisenhower program...
Last week President Eisenhower gazed on the towering edifice of the McNary Dam, then pointed to a wispy, grey man on the speaker's platform. Said Ike: "My good friend, Senator Guy Cordon, for the past ten years has labored tirelessly to complete this project." Ike's words came as a sincere-and politically priceless-tribute to Oregon's Republican Cordon, who in his quiet way has made himself influential among G.O.P. Senators. This year Cordon is in a desperate fight for re-election against his Democratic opponent, Richard Neuberger, a state senator and free-lance writer...
...University of California graduate, Steve Bechtel started working summers in his father's construction firm. In 1931 the firm teamed up with other construction outfits to form the famed Six Companies that built Hoover Dam. After his father died in 1933, Steve Bechtel started branching out into a new construction field. He began laying pipelines, soon spotted the profits to be had from building power plants and oil refineries to keep pace with mushrooming demand. All a company had to do was tell Bechtel what it wanted and he would design and build...
Challenge in Manila. Back in drought-ridden Delhi, Nehru explained that his parable referred to the Chinese Communists, whom he compared with a "river of history." "One cannot stop a river, though one can build a canal," he told the Indian Press Association. "One should not try to dam...