Word: oxbow
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitter battle over Hells Canyon seemed over at last. But last week the fight flared anew after the Office of Defense Mobilization granted Idaho Power a fast tax write-off on 65% of the cost of its $67.1 million Brownlee dam and on 60% of its $35.9 million Oxbow dam. In effect the write-off gives Idaho Power an interest-free loan of about $30 million for five years...
...Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug proposed a high-level (602-ft.) federal dam with initial capacity of 800,000 kilowatts. Idaho Power Co. wanted to build three smaller, privately financed hydroelectric dams (initial capacity: 783,400 kw.) at Oxbow. Brownlee and Hell's Canyon sites, all of which would have been flooded by the Government project...
...harness the Snake, the Idaho Power Co. proposed spending $133 million in private funds to build three hydroelectric dams at Oxbow, Brownlee and Hell's Canyon, with a combined generating capacity of 783,000 kilowatts. But under the Fair Deal's Secretary Oscar Chapman, the Interior Department planned a much more ambitious public power program for the Snake. Chapman wanted to build a $559,791,000 multi-purpose dam that would back up the waters of the Snake River into a lake 93 miles long and flood Idaho Power's dam sites. The entire cost for power...
...picture fills the eye with the grandeur of its well-chosen locations and the flashing charm of Mexico's Actress Marques, who looks something like a brunette Faye Emerson. And it gains vigor now & then from the hairy-chested direction of William (The Oxbow Incident) Wellman, notably in the roisterous humor of a drunken free-for-all, shots of horses charging and churning through mountain snowdrifts, and the unsqueamish thunk of arrows hitting human hide...