Word: helling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pork, many a budget-cutter squealed in anguish. A delegation of Georgia businessmen arrived in Washington to demand that their Congressmen vote wholesale economies, only to be asked if they thought appropriations for Georgia projects should be knocked out. "Oh no," cried one. "We want you to cut the hell out of everybody but us." In San Francisco the Chamber of Commerce issued a resounding call for budget slashes. What about the proposed $45 million federal courthouse in San Francisco? Snapped a Chamber of Commerce official: "We don't consider this pork-barreling in any sense. The new federal...
When the show made its radio debut on April 29, 1945, the nation was preoccupied with the approaching end of World War II. Recalls Producer Harry Mynatt: "They had a hell of a time getting an audience-had to pass out dollar bills to get people into the theater. " Now the ladies fight to get into the Hollywood studio, bolt a buffet lunch, and scribble their wishes on a card. M.C. Bailey and Producer Mynatt select the 21 likeliest wishes, and backstage interviews just before air time pick the day's five contestants to be judged by the studio...
...green. His flat, awkward swing whipped out short, straight drives. His approach shots were dead to the pin. His putter rarely missed. On the 15th his drive left him a 245-yd. carry over water to the green. "Mistuh Ford." said his caddy, "you better play it safe." "The hell I will, boy," said Ford. He swung his spoon, made the green and holed out for a birdie four...
...long battle between public and private powermen for the right to develop Hell's Canyon finally ended. By refusing last week to review the case for public power, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Federal Power Commission's 1955 judgment in favor of private power. That judgment ruled in effect that private enterprise is preferable when it stands ready to serve the public interest quickly and efficiently...
...Climate. But public power proponents are far from giving up. Though Hell's Canyon was lost, they knew that Northwestern industrial and political climates have changed since the FPC ruling in 1955. With no big new dams completed, Northwest economic growth is slowing down. Cheap power from public dams built under the New Deal is now inadequate, and few new industries are moving in. As a result of this-and the Democratic victories in the Northwest last year on a public power platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below...