Word: hooverness
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House Republicans sternly laid about them with their economy ax. Last week they worked over Harry Truman's budget for the State, Commerce and Justice Departments. Only one neck was spared-J. Edgar Hoover...
...blueprint, the dam had been known as Boulder, since it was to be built across the Colorado River in Boulder Canyon. In 1930, when construction started, Interior Secretary Wilbur named it Hoover after his boss. When the Democrats moved in, Secretary Harold Ickes decided that Wilbur had had no right to rename the dam, changed it back to Boulder-despite the fact that the site had been shifted 20 miles southward to Black Canyon...
Paying tribute to the man whose special talents he has used on several occasions, President Truman last week signed the joint congressional resolution restoring the name of Hoover to Boulder Dam. He used four pens, asked that they all be sent to the nation's only living ex-President...
...Herbert Hoover lives quietly for most of the year in Manhattan's Waldorf Towers. His wife died three years ago. His hair is a little thinner, his face a little heavier, his stiff collars a little lower. He has given up all his business directorships, spends much of his time collecting historical records for Stanford University's Hoover Library of War, Revolution and Peace. Last February he made an exhausting, 6,000-mile trip to survey Europe's food needs...
Facts & Contradictions. Hoover's testimony limned a desperate situation. England's crops had been badly damaged by spring floods. Much of Europe's winter wheat had been destroyed by Europe's winter. He described some shocking contradictions in policy. Europe's soil was exhausted. And yet, Hoover charged, "we, including our Allies, have been as busy as bees destroying the capacity to manufacture fertilizers." German nitrogen and phosphoric acid plants were being dynamited because they could be converted to munitions manufacture. The world's total nitrogen production (2,600,000 tons) is more than...