Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stromberg, a native of Salt Lake City, used Japanese respect for Americans to his advantage. "The Japanese treated me as if I was 30 years old," he says. "I could walk into a bank and ask to talk to somebody, and they'd usher me right into the branch manager's office...
Carter last week spoke to his largest crowd of the entire campaign season: 70,000 farmers attending a "farm fest" on a muddy field in Minnesota's rural Lake Crystal. Introduced rousingly by Senator Hubert Humphrey, who accused the Ford Administration of "violating the law" in imposing embargoes on foreign grain sales, Carter assailed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and used a subtle "we" to identify with his attentive audience. "I never met a farmer who wanted a handout," Peanut Processor Carter said. "I never met a farmer who wanted the Government to guarantee him a profit...
...more than a decade the people of the state's Ashe and Alleghany counties have been contesting the efforts of the giant American Electric Power Co. to build a pair of dams that would turn the New River's spectacular upper reaches into a great, muddy lake. Their fight ended in victory when the President signed into law a bill taking the New into a national scenic river system. The measure does more than preserve the river and deal a precedent-setting setback to the power industry: it also safeguards a centuries-old way of life...
...river was not all that would have been destroyed by the dams. Creation of the huge lake would have inundated some 50,000 acres, most of which was prime agricultural land, and left another 50,000 acres all but useless. The lake's waters would have submerged more than 900 homes, trailers and cabins, drowned 600 farms, five post offices, 15 churches and twelve cemeteries. It would also have driven nearly 3,000 mountain people, most of them independent farmers, from lands settled by their ancestors before the Revolution...
Irene Streeter McLean Devils Lake...