Word: mcmahon
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Even after Canadian Oilman Frank McMahon lost out in his fight to pipe natural gas from the vast Peace River Basin* of Alberta and British Columbia into the U.S. Northwest (TIME, June 28), he refused to concede defeat. Although the Federal Power Commission awarded the franchise to rival Ray Fish's Pacific Northwest Pipeline Corp. (see map), nature had spotted McMahon's untapped gas supplies some 400 miles closer to Seattle than the San Juan Basin along the Colorado-New Mexico border, from which Fish planned...
Loser was the Westcoast Transmission Co., Ltd., of Calgary, Ont., headed by Canadian Oilman Frank McMahon. He wanted to bring gas to the Northwest through a 930-mile pipeline from Canada's Peace River section in northern Alberta and British Columbia, where his Pacific Petroleums has sunk millions into a huge, new gas field. Losers also were the Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Colum bia, which had hoped for big, new indus trial developments along the gas line. Cried one provincial cabinet minister: "This is disastrous...
Reading in shifts from a bulky, 105 page statement, the five Atomic Energy Commission members last week urged Congress to bring the eight-year-old McMahon Act into line with President Eisenhower's atomic-energy recommendations of last February by permitting greater private-industry participation at home and sharing some atomic military information with allies abroad...
...admitting: "We have not got [the facts]." But then he contradicted himself ("I am in almost hourly correspondence with the Government of the U.S."), and solicited from Washington a stream of confidential cables providing all the thermonuclear information that the U.S. could release under the terms of the McMahon (atomic security) Act. Then, in Commons, Churchill used it with devastating effect...
...abandon any of these agreements . . . We carried them out." But the old man rumbled on: "When I visited the U.S. two years ago, I showe this document to Senator Mc-Mahon ... He told me: 'If I had seen this agreement, there would have been no McMahon Act.' " The House rocked in amazement. "Resign!" shouted Laborites. Beefy Laborite M.P. Bessie Braddock bawled: "Why don't you get out?" But Sir Winston just plowed on through the fertile soil of logic...