Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Turning Tide. The P.U.D.'s are bound to fight. But Robinson, with two victories under his belt, thinks that at long last the tide is turning in favor of private powor in the Northwest. Recently, the Washington legislature passed a bill allowing public and private utilities to buy jointly...
Not all of it was that easy. Budget Director Joseph Dodge ran into trouble when some of his fiscal surgeons decided to take $200 million out of the Interior Department's $235 million reclamation budget. To Easterners, "reclamation" is a fancy word for pork-barreling. To Westerners, who see...
Electricity is the lifeblood of the Pacific Northwest. Although mighty dams--Grand Coulee, Bonneville, Hungry Horse, McNary--make the Columbia the greatest power producing river in the world, they cannot generate electricity fast enough to satisfy the demands of Oregon and Washington.
When they saw the new markets for power, private power companies wanted to build some "white elephants" themselves. But after the private utilities had constructed a number of dams on the Columbia's tributaries, the superiority of Government projects became apparent. Dams operated by one administration instead of a number...
Although the privately-owned Idaho Power Company is still trying to stir up public opinion against "socialism" so that private companies can build the Hell's Canyon project, most companies are content to use power from government dams.