Word: mckay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Duff. His newly announced campaign trip to the Midwest and Northwest in mid-October-with speeches planned in Minneapolis, Seattle, Tacoma and Portland-has a similar purpose. In Minnesota the Republican ticket is endangered by farm unrest; in Washington and Oregon he has given Arthur Langlie and Douglas McKay his backing for the Senate, and he feels honor bound to support them in their uphill races. But the President has shown little concern for candidates in trouble because of local party apathy or faulty leadership. Told of two such spots in Ohio last week, he answered: "Well...
...most obvious results of this policy are shown in the Pacific Northwest, where McKay withdrew Interior Department support for a high federal dam at Hells Canyon. Then the FPC ignored its examiner, who had found that a high dam would provide more power, more flood control, more navigation, and more recreation for the Hells Canyon area than the three low private dams. The FPC granted permission for the three-dam plan...
Cranes need protection, but so do natural resources, and McKay, Eisenhower and a private-power-stacked Federal Power Commission have substituted "partnership" for careful development of hydroelectric potential. "Partnership" is a policy with chameleon tendencies, but essentially it can mean...
...McKay and the Commission have consistently opposed Federal dams, despite the fact that substitute private dams are less productive in most aspects, and rarely take any notice of comprehensive development plans prepared for the areas in question...
...Administration has opened Wildlife Refuges to oil drilling, while McKay was publicly announcing it would be forbidden. Appropriations for the Rural Electrification Administration and the Bonneville Power Administration were drastically cut. The Rogue River National Forest has been lumbered extensively under a phony mining contract. The Administration backed a bill to give lumber operators choice public forest lands instead of cash compensation when their properties were condemned for reservoirs or similar purposes...