Word: hoovers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more impressive gathering assembled to greet him than at journey's end last week. On hand, as Nixon's Air Force Constellation touched down at Washington's MATS Terminal after 27,477 miles, were State's Secretary John Foster Dulles and Under Secretary Herbert Hoover Jr., some 20 G.O.P. Senators and Representatives marshaled by Senate Minority Leader Bill Knowland. Republican National Chairman Len Hall, and diplomats from the six nations Nixon had visited on his voyage around the world. Travel-weary but smiling, Dick Nixon greeted old friends, but kept his conclusions to himself until...
...public "pleasuring ground." Thus was created Yellowstone, still the largest (3,450 square miles), as well as the oldest of the national parks, and visited in the last 84 years by an army of 19 million. But the wonders of Yellowstone have yielded first place in popularity to Hoover Dam's Lake Mead in the desert country at the Arizona-Nevada border. Close behind Lake Mead's 2,675,000-a-year traffic come the Great Smokies, with 2,580,000 a year. The newest of the parks, Florida's swampy Everglades, 1,258,000 acres...
...great fountainhead of arbitration is the nonprofit American Arbitration Association, founded 30 years ago with the help of Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover and Banker Felix Warburg. With a $500.000 budget, mostly contributed by large corporations, plus modest fees ($25 per day in labor cases, from one-tenth of 1% to 1.5% of the disputed amount in commercial cases), dedicated A.A.A.ers handle about 2,500 disputes a year, 80% of them labor cases, boast that never has an aggrieved party walked out of the hearing room...
...historic cause. As commissioners of Grant County's tiny (12,805 customers) Public Utility District No. 2, the farmers started signing their names 166,000 times on revenue bonds that will set in motion the nation's third biggest hydroelectric development (after Grand Coulee and Hoover Dams). It will be the first to be built under President Eisenhower's policy of power partnership between private and public utilities. The project: Columbia River dams and power plants at Priest Rapids and Wanapum, 200 miles downstream from Grand Coulee. When the $383.7 million complex is completed...
...Irish monkeys." New Hampshire and Vermont were "the varicose veins of New England," and New York was "a sewer, a cesspool, a garbage can . . . the hickest of all hick towns." Of U.S. Presidents, there was "no viler oaf" than Woodrow Wilson. "You know what I think of Hoover. Turn him upside down, and he looks the same." As for the Roosevelts, Teddy "had the manners of a saloon bouncer and the soul of a stuck pig, and FDR is the synthesis of all the liars, scoundrels, and cheapskates of mankind...