Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Defense Mobilizer Gordon Gray granted Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off on two Snake River dams (TIME, May 13), he handed public powermen and the Democrats a political grenade. Last week Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver's antitrust and monopoly subcommittee pulled the pin.
Federal Power Commission Chairman Jerome Kuykendall also sounded unhappy about the write-off. He said that FPC licensed the dams "on the premise that financing was going to be conventional.'' Though FPC knew that Idaho Power had applied for rapid amortization four years ago, it accepted the company...
Economic Aid. The new program offers long-term aid on a loan basis to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and Africa to help provide the visible signs of economic progress that their peoples are learning to expect and demand. The method of providing capital is entirely new: creation of a...
Answer: Co-Ops? Truth was that India's food production, increased about 18% by the dams, irrigation ditches and educational projects of the first five-year plan, has leveled off and even slightly declined in the past three years-while India's population inexorably rose by 15 million...
Paris was not for long content with such enlightened methods. Frenchmen poured into Morocco, grabbed up the best farmland with the help of laws dedicated to "extending the French presence," and allowing French farmers to pay 20% less tax than a Moroccan. They displaced the Moroccan administrators. They dug mines...