Word: localize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once. He is not at all disheartened by the wide spread between his critical and financial successes. His first show sold only four of his paintings for a total of $336, but that was enough to pay for his room in Kensington, his food, an occasional night at the local pub, cigarettes and hardboard (cheaper than canvases) for six months. His second show has sold only three pictures, for $315, to private collectors. Says Smith defiantly: "I don't care whether I sell my pictures or not. I know I've got to paint them, and paint them...
...fact that power costs of dams now coming into use will reflect the high postwar construction costs of $300 per kw. of installed capacity v. $100 prewar. Despite the protests of public-power men, the partnership program has already won favor among the potential partners. In California, local irrigation districts are ready to finance $44 million of the Tri-Dam project on the Stanislaus River. The city of Eugene, Ore. is willing to pay for power facilities for the Cougar Dam. A bill to allow local interests to develop power at Priest Rapids on the Columbia River last week went...
...storm of protest from public-power supporters. They charge that it is a "giveaway" to private interests of hydroelectric resources that belong to all the people. Actually, the partnership policy simply means that the Federal Government, instead of going it alone, will act as a partner of state, local and private interests in building big new hydroelectric projects. Local funds will pay for the power features of the dams; the Federal Government will pay for whatever share is allotted to irrigation, flood control and land reclamation...
Whether power facilities shall be publicly or privately owned is left to local authorities, working with private utility companies, cooperatives and public utility districts...
...crux of the Republican policy is that only where local interests cannot assure development of natural resources should the Federal Government step in. For example, the Administration is pushing two huge projects, which fall under this heading: development of the Upper Colorado Basin and the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River in Montana...