Word: folsoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berserk Feather. Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
...first press conference since taking over the U.S. Health, Education and Welfare Department, Secretary Marion Folsom last week outlined his 1956 agenda. Items...
...nation's highest-piled governor (6 ft. 8 in.), Alabama's James E. ("Kissin' Jim") Folsom, autocratically took off to qualify also as the highest-flying. His recent ploy, now under investigation by the Air Force: commandeering Alabama's National Guard airplanes to haul Kissin' Jim and his cronies to one of this fall's football games. On New Year's Eve, the Alabama Polytechnic Institute team will take on Vanderbilt University in the "Gator" Bowl game at Jacksonville, Fla. Kissin' Jim plans to be there, free-loaded, with room...
Jacksonville runway a landing inspection some time during the morning of Dec. 31 and a take-off inspection that afternoon." Asked if he feared any grounding orders from federal authorities, Folsom, virtually there for the big kickoff already, drawled: "I'm the law around here." But at week's end, an aide of Kissin' Jim's nervously volunteered that he was sure Jester Folsom was just jesting...
...generating heat in California, Presidential Hopeful Harriman was setting forth on a chilly, overcast morning in Mclntosh, Ala. (near the spot where New Yorker Aaron Burr was captured in 1807), for a day of hunting with his host, Democratic Representative Frank Boykin, and Alabama's Governor James Folsom. Before breakfast Harriman had shot a 22-lb. turkey; after a quail breakfast, the huntsmen took off to try their skill against the deer on Boykin's 100,000-acre preserve. Although he tried three different stands, Harriman had no luck. That afternoon Harriman spoke to some...