Word: mckay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barreling. To Westerners, who see federally-financed dams and canals as the only means of developing vast, arid stretches of their land, reclamation is what the Government exists to do. Last week this potent political fact was forcefully explained to Detroiter Dodge by his Western colleague, Interior Secretary Douglas McKay of Oregon. "Broth is never eaten as hot as it's cooked," philosophized McKay later. "I'm not really worried now. The Western Senators won't let them ruin the reclamation program...
...land, however, Attorney General Herbert Brownell must now support the Texas claim. Anxious to avoid a Court dispute, Brownell has suggested letting the coastal states take the oil from the submerged land without giving them title to the disputed sea bottom. Secretary of the Interior Douglas McKay and other proponents of state-ownership have charged Brownell with backing off the party platform. And those favoring Federal control are grumbling over the loss of revenue to the nation...
...Northwest's eyes will focus on Douglas McKay, the new Secretary of the Interior. An ardent states-rights governor of Oregon for the past two years, he told the Senate Committee of the Interior that "public power was getting most of the breaks in the Northwest." This may mean that McKay will not object if Congress fails to appropriate money for new transmission lines; it might even mean that McKay will want to let the private companies build the new projects on the Columbia. In any event, private utilities all over the country will eagerly watch developments in the Northwest...
Director of the Pratt and Whitney-Harvard research project is Howard W. Emmons, Gordon McKay Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Emmons is presently in England on a Fulbright grant and his place is being taken by Carl J. Pearson, Instructor in Applied Mechanics. Pearson did fundamental work on "surge...
...When the McKay scholarship program is fully under way, annual stipends will be awarded to 40 undergraduates at a total cost of $40,000. At present, Harvard grants a total of $200,000 in scholarships to 300 freshmen...