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Word: ouachita (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Palm Beach; $21,000 to improve navigation for the crabbers of Twitch Cove, Md.; $34,500 to improve yachting at Stonington harbor, Conn. He thought that $1.3 million for dredging the Detroit River would benefit no one but the Detroit Edison Co., and that $36.9 million to improve the Ouachita River in Arkansas and Louisiana was not justified. In all, he listed $840 million of projects from Prouts Neck, Me. to Westport Slough, Ore.-many of them not even requested by the Administration-which he thought could be lopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Steamboat Comin1 Roun' de Bend | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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