Word: greenes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Without another word, Fulbright moved that the committee substitute Richards' amendment for Knowland's. Voting with Fulbright for the motion were Republicans Smith, Alexander Wiley and George Aiken, Democrats Walter George, Theodore Green, John Sparkman and Guy Gillette. On record against it went Republicans Knowland, Homer Ferguson, Bourke Hickenlooper and William Langer and Democrat Mike Mansfield. Dulles had won his point, over the opposition of his own party's Senate leaders...
EGYPT, by an agreement with Britain which has outlasted riots and mutual insults, controls the flow of the Nile. She thus manages to support 17 million fellahin on a thin green strip of land along its banks. The Nile's surplus is dammed up at Aswan during the wet season, released during the dry. Now in process: a Nile "century" scheme to even out wet and dry decades and provide an ever-normal flow for irrigation by making Lake Victoria into the world's largest storage...
IRAQ has a long-range plan to restore the Biblical green of the Tigris-Euphrates, if only its restless people and its turbulent politicos will wait for its fruition. By turning the Wadi Tharthar (dry river bed) into a reservoir to sequester the Tigris-Euphrates overflow in floodtime, the annual drought-flood cycle will be controlled and Iraq's irrigated area doubled. It is being financed out of the country's oil royalties ($140 million last year...
...office atop a low, green building on the outskirts of Seattle, Wash. stands a potted, prickly-pear cactus plant. The office is the headquarters of William Mc-Pherson Allen, president of Boeing Airplane Co.; the cactus was given to him almost nine years ago as a symbol of his job when Allen took over as Boeing's new president. Scrawny, stunted and thorny, the plant then symbolized Boeing's postwar plight, with two of the company's plants silent and empty, 38,000 of its wartime workers out of jobs. Today, President Allen's bitter little...
PIGGYBACK railroading, temporarily checked by an ICC order four weeks ago, now has the commission's O.K. Though truckers have complained about proposed rates of six railroads for carrying loaded trailers on flatcars, the ICC decided to give their new service a green light, while the rate discussion continues...