Word: flow
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Main-Stream Question. In 1928's Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorizing the Hoover Dam system on the Colorado, Congress settled on water quotas for the states involved. Assuming the normal flow of the lower Colorado to be 7.5 million acre-feet per year *Congress assigned 4.4 million to California, 2.8 million to Arizona, 300,000 to Nevada. Any flow in excess of 7.5 million was to be divided equally between California and Arizona. The essential question was whether the 1928 formula applied only to the main stream of the river, as Arizona contended, or to the main stream plus...
...André, who visited the U.S. and Scotland as a young naval lieutenant, became fascinated by banking and founded Stockholm's first commercial bank in 1856. His Enskilda Bank became the chief funnel through which foreign capital entered Sweden, and André and the succeeding Wallenbergs directed the flow of foreign funds to finance Swedish industrialization...
...long it goes on in much less involved circumstances was noted last week by Theologian Karl Earth as he was being interviewed for this week's story in Religion. Ever since he appeared on the cover (April 20, 1962), said Earth, he has been receiving "a never-ending flow of envelopes from America, containing my TIME cover picture, with requests to return it, duly signed. The only way I can find to sign it is by writing Karl on the left side, and Earth on the right side of my collar. This is the only white on the picture...
...follow the returns, the Agriculture Department set up a regular election-night headquarters, expected to chart the ebb and flow of the vote late into the night. But by 7 p.m., Room 6768 in the department's main Washington building was a glum place. Far from giving Freeman's plan the necessary two-thirds, farmers refused it even a simple majority. The final vote was 547,151 for, 597,776 against (see box on following page...
Hair Is a Flower. He had two favorite themes, women and flowers. For him, a woman's hair was like some kind of exotic plant that swirled and swooped with a life of its own. A woman did not wear clothes: she let silks and satins flow over her in the same kind of swoops and swirls. As for the flower, it contained nature's most delicate lines and its subtlest forms. The beautiful bend of a supple stem, the gentle curves of a petal, the organic flow of line and form into each other-these were...