Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McKay ended Interior's struggle for power. One evening last year, soon after taking over, McKay told his wife: "I've made my decision on Hell's Canyon-boy, will I catch hell tomorrow." His decision: to drop Interior's delaying action against the Idaho Power Co. No Congress, Democratic or Republican, had ever authorized Interior to build at Hell's Canyon, and no Congress in the foreseeable future would vote the needed funds ($842.5 million). But Interior had done everything possible to get the site and to stop Idaho Power from building dams with...
...several states. In Kentucky, concern for TVA could defeat Republican Senator John Sherman Cooper, although he does not share his party's position. In Wyoming, ex-Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney is trying to come back with an all-out attack on McKay. In Idaho, where Hell's Canyon is a burning issue, some pro-McKay candidates lost last week's primaries. In Montana, Fair-Dealing Senator James Murray is campaigning against McKay rather than his opponent. In Washington, two Republican Congressmen (Walt Horan and Russell Mack) have disassociated themselves from McKay's policy...
...Viet Minh are agitating with a terrible intensity," said a Frenchman. Said an American: "They are burrowing in, caching their arms. Will they send their troops out in accordance with the Geneva agreement? Like hell they will. What they will do is send out a couple of phony battalions of peasants, accompanied by a few of their better-known cadres. They probably want the cadres to take refresher courses in the north anyway." He shrugged in disgust and despair...
...talk any more. Except Julie Harris, and that one can do any thing." Then Ethel disclosed that "I never go [to the movies], not even to my own. Why should I? I never saw myself on the stage either, you know." She had television down pat: "It's hell." Notwithstanding its hellishness, Actress Barrymore sat down last week and was photographed as she signed a long-term contract to emote in a series of half-hour TV shows, starting next April...
Next record: a vocalist named Rusty Draper ("Real sincere, but a little cold lately"), singing In the Workshop of the Lord. This was "a sacred thing," but what the hell could you do with the pairing? On the other side of the record was a hot-rhythm number. Turned down...