Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dominy's recommendation, Udall ordered Glen Canyon's gates opened. That was like pulling the plug on one bathtub and letting the water drain into another (see map). In this case, the Glen Canyon water flowed, at 18,000 cu. ft. per sec., 370 miles downriver to Lake Mead and Hoover Dam. The water is still running, which is fine for the folks in Phoenix and Los Angeles. But the water loss to the Upper Basin is drying up Lake Powell, and with it the hopes there for new electric power in the near future...
...hungry Australia spends more than $250 million a year to import petroleum, an outlay that hardly pleases its export-minded government. Alarmed by this drain, Australia began subsidizing oil exploration six years ago, has since spent more than $45 million sending drill and rig out across its vast uncharted continent, often to the amazement of its aborigines and the terror of its kangaroos. More than 100 companies and syndicates now hold permits to look for oil in Australia. Such firms as Union Oil of California, Shell, Texaco, Delhi-Taylor and Kern County Land have so far drilled more than...
...assignment, Mansfield immediately got a coveted spot on the Foreign Relations Committee. To this day, he would rather be considered an authority on foreign policy than a famed floor leader. He made three trips to Indo-China during the years when the French were letting it slip down the drain, concluded that the best solution there was partition, with South Viet Nam under a native, anti-Communist regime headed by Ngo Dinh Diem. Re-examining the situation last month, Mansfield urged that neutralization of both North and South Viet Nam ought to be contemplated. President Johnson had considerable trouble convincing...
Already the Cyprus crisis and the resulting anti-American demonstrations in Greece have at least temporarily scared off millions of U.S. investment dollars desperately needed to speed up Greek industrialization. Income from tourism has plummeted and the maintenance of the military on constant alert is a steady drain on the government's coffers. Though Papandreou and Constantine both favor a moderate solution to the Cyprus problem, popular indignation on the question could endanger the government-and the throne-unless some sort of settlement clearly favorable to Greece is achieved. Thus the future of an old man named Papandreou...
...Wealthier nations tend to treat electricity as if it were air; merchants often leave lights blazing all night, and big cities never grow dark. In the U.S., the average number of appliances in the home has risen from ten to 40 (including lamps) in 25 years, with a consequent drain on power. But electricity has also become a necessity in whole areas of the world that only recently regarded it as a luxury. In Kenya, for example, the East African Power & Lighting Co. is busy stringing cables through the bush to grass-roofed huts...