Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This year the race had been shifted from the turbulent Hudson to the placid Ohio, where it was hoped that the dams at Marietta would still the current and the complaints of coaches that Poughkeepsie's course was unfair to crews. But the change did not seem to affect...
And what he intended was a glowing vision of "prosperity, cooperation, expansion." Harry Truman wanted the best for everybody-workers, businessmen and farmers. Keeping them all prosperous meant more Government services, more welfare programs, more dams, more irrigation canals, an expanding economy.
First the House fastened its teeth to the $29 billion omnibus appropriation bill. The more the House looked at the thing, the bigger the bill had grown-an additional $385 million for national defense, millions for creeks, dams and other sordid items of pork-barrel politics. It had become just...
How the harnessing of the big river would affect all this, he was not quite sure. He worried vaguely about his spacious reaches being overrun, but as a believer in progress he only knew that he had to build his big dams and find out.
Through the Senate last week passed the most popular legislation of the year: the rivers and harbors appropriation. Senators got busy salting each others' pork to the extent of $1,565,000,000 dispensing dredges, canals, dams, and beach improvements, with glee.