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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...
...Clipper (Old Joe Kennedy's gift) have held tag Nos. 9 and 10. They will move up to replace the No. 2 dog, Jefferson, otherwise known as Little Beagle Johnson, owned by Vice President Johnson, and the No. 3 dog. G. Boy, owned by FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover. After July 1. Little Beagle will carry tag No. 4 and G. Boy will be wearing...
...Blooded Socialism. Hoiles, reports one Texas merchant after a long diet of the local Hoiles paper, is "against every damned thing on earth." In his papers, he has attacked Herbert Hoover and the National Association of Manufacturers as too leftwing, called all taxes "the theft of wages." argued that fire departments, public libraries, highways, and even the armed forces ought to be maintained strictly by voluntary contributions. His most splenetic outbursts are reserved for the public school system. When teachers try to argue with him, he snaps, "How can an inmate of a house of prostitution discuss chastity...
Like most major Latin American companies, SIAM (whose initials, in Spanish, stand for American Industrial Machinery Corp.) is not an innovator but an imitator. Under various license deals, it produces Westinghouse refrigerators and air conditioners, Hoover washing machines, British Motor Corp. Riley cars, Italian Lambretta scooters, Swedish Electrolux floor polishers and a multitude of other hard goods for Argentina, which boasts the broadest middle-class market in Latin America. Says Chairman Guy Clutterbuck, 55: "Conditions in Argentina make it difficult to carry out long and costly experimental programs. After all, Europe and the U.S. have much more technical know...
...Pentagon safe. And now here it was on the front pages. "This has happened to me 15 or 20 times in the last 26 months." rumbled McNamara. "I became so upset about the situation that on several occasions I have discussed it with the Attorney General and J. Edgar Hoover...