Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...partnership began in 1933, at a meeting in Sacramento. At the time, the state legislature had just passed a bill authorizing the Central Valley Project, which was conceived largely as a flood-control, irrigation and salinity-control development in Northern California. But the powerful Pacific Gas & Electricity Co. correctly foresaw that the project might become a threat to private power, and initiated a referendum to defeat it. In some alarm, State Senator Jack McColl and other Central Valley advocates called a strategy meeting and asked Whitaker, a rising young pressagent, to sit in. Also at the meeting was Leone Smith...
...Frank Dow Merrill, then an obscure, 40-year-old U.S. infantry officer, found his crisis in Burma. Under command of General Joseph Stilwell, the Allies were set to drive across northern Burma to Myitkyina, key Japanese defense base and main air base from which fighters menaced the allied air route over "the Hump" to China. With a newly built road eastward from Ledo in northern India, they would intersect the Burma Road, reopen the land route to China...
...blanket of sub-zero weather shrouded New England last night with the mercury falling into the minus column across the northern sections...
...forecast for the northern three states was for temperatures ranging down to 20 degrees below zero...
...other claimant is Pakistan, a sturdy ally of the U.S., the Russians are all for India's claims (which India stubbornly refuses to submit to U.N. plebiscite). After two vigorous days amid Kashmir's storied pleasures, the two returned from what Bulganin referred to as "this northern part of India." Pakistan had formally protested their visit to Kashmir. Huffed Khrushchev: "No other power in the past has dared to tell us what we should do and whom to choose as our friends...