Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the Southerners failed to wangle any commitments, five Northern Democrats known as champions of both civil rights and public power did vote against the plan to bring the civil rights bill directly to the floor, bypassing the Judiciary Committee.*Southerners were grateful for the help-and sore at the Republicans for outmaneuvering them. So five Southern Democrats who voted against the Hells Canyon bill a year ago (Mississippi's Eastland, North Carolina's Ervin, Louisiana's Long, Georgia's Russell, Florida's Smathers) turned around and voted for it. That tipped the balance...
...gallery spectators cheered-a rare event in the Senate-Northern Democrats, milled about in handshaking, back-slapping merriment because they believe they have a big issue in public power. But the rejoicing was premature. It was doubtful whether the bill could get by the House. If it did, it would still have to get by the President-and insiders firmly predicted an Eisenhower veto...
...miles away from the Piessets in one of the dreariest slums of the same northern French city live wan and wasted Jeanne Derock, a local mill worker, her husband Jean-Baptiste, a wounded war veteran able to do only occasional work, and their five children, all of whom sleep in beds knocked together out of old fish crates by papa Derock...
...going to stop us?", Canada's Liberals a year ago bulled legislation through Parliament for a pipeline to carry natural gas across the country from the Alberta fields. Though Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd. was a private enterprise, the Liberal government generously agreed to build the Northern Ontario section of the line, which the promoters gloomily called "uneconomic," and even lent Trans-Canada $50 million when it claimed to be hard up. Only last week did the full measure of the big deal come clear: before a whiff of gas has moved eastward, backers of the pipe network have...
...chunks of the $37.5 million public issue, which is now worth $161 million. Fantastic speculative profits were also made in three companies set up to gather or distribute the gas Trans-Canada will bring. Vancouver Oilman Ralph K. Farris, son of a Liberal Senator and founder of the Northern Ontario Natural Gas Co., paid $300 for stock now worth $750,000. Two insiders invested $12,012 in stock now priced at $3,200,000. Quebec Natural Gas Co., another distributor, made $32.2 million in paper profits, and again the big chunk went to insiders. By contrast, the Alberta government thoroughly...