Word: pattern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Smith called a press conference and made a handsome apology to Chasanow, restoring him to duty with back pay. A Navy statement said: "The pattern of Mr. Chasanow's life portrays an above-average loyal American citizen." The Navy, Smith said, had been a "little naive" in swallowing everything that poison-tongue informants had said about Chasanow, who had made enemies (as well as scores of friends) in the intense local politics of Greenbelt, Md., where he lives. Said Chasanow: "It seems like I woke up from a bad dream. The sun is shining. The birds...
...private utilities, the next big addition to the combined system's generating capacity will be built by the private companies. Best of all, wholesale power costs to the cooperatives will drop from ii mills to 8? mills a kwh. Said Ancher Nelson: "The agreement might well become a pattern for other states with power supply and cost problems in rural areas...
...Power Pattern. To both sides it made such good sense that they agreed to interconnect the systems at 19 different points. Each would help the other at periods of peak loads, thus lessening breakdowns and power shortages. The cooperatives would abandon plans for 292 miles of lines, use the $3,000,000 saved to increase capacity of the new plant at Ford. With peace in sight, the Government released the remaining $13,299,000 of its loan to the cooperatives so that they could further expand the Ford plant and complete their transmission system...
With EDC gone, so would be the pattern of postwar diplomacy. Mendès-France, in releasing his country from the bonds of EDC, was also breaking the chain that kept Germany, Britain and the U.S. committed to France...
That idea grew to obsess Ickes and, until McKay, the Interior Department. In 1935, under Ickes, all public lands were closed to public settlement. Thenceforth the pattern was plain: the public domain was for the Government, not the public. The result: 54% of the eleven Western states is still federal land, much of it undeveloped and unproductive. Nearly 100 million acres have never been surveyed. In Interior's forests some 9 billion valuable board feet of wind-thrown timber are moldering away, hindering new growth...