Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salazar calls his country's three little colonies on the west coast of India "a small hearth of the spirit of the West in the East." Last week the hearth was flaring up dangerously. In the village of Dadrá, ten miles southeast of the town of Damão, Policeman A. P. Rozaerio was addressing 150 restive villagers on their duty to defend Portuguese sovereignty. Suddenly, a voice from the edge of the crowd shouted a demand that Rozaerio surrender the village to India. Rozaerio, aware that he had a fight on his hands, seized his rifle...
...hottest political fight is over the Hell's Canyon dam on the Pacific Northwest's Snake River, one of the last great undeveloped river valleys in the U.S. The fight started in 1948 when the Interior Department proposed a huge new dam. The Idaho Power Co. countered with an offer to build three smaller dams. They would cost only $133 million, compared to $383 million for the Government's one dam, yet furnish two-thirds as much power. The Interior Department opposed Idaho Power's application, argued that it would not fit in with overall plans...
When the Republicans came in, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay did an about-face. The private company plan, said he, would supply power seven years before the Government could. Moreover, as a practical matter, the Interior Department had twice been turned down on dam funds, saw little prospect of getting them. (The Idaho Power application is now before the Federal Power Commission...
Although public-power proponents have been trying to represent the power fight as a straight Democrat v. Republican affair, both parties have split, depending on individual projects. Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr is sponsor of the Markham Ferry Dam in his state, to be built by a state authority, aided by federal funds for flood control. A bill to allow the Alabama Power Co. to build dams on the Coosa River, sponsored by Democratic Senators Lister Hill and John Sparkman, was recently passed by Congress (TIME, June 28). On the other hand, Republican Tom Dewey wants...
...crux of the Republican policy is that only where local interests cannot assure development of natural resources should the Federal Government step in. For example, the Administration is pushing two huge projects, which fall under this heading: development of the Upper Colorado Basin and the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana...