Word: picking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Montana introduced a bill to set up an MVA, governors in eight of the nine Missouri Basin states came out cautiously for Army flood control proposals and the Reclamation Bureau's plans for irrigation development. In November, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau (headed by Major General Lewis Pick and W. G. Sloan) joined forces in a compromise; Senator Murray promptly accused them of hastening their agreement just to thwart...
...Army and the Reclamation Bureau were steadily working out their plans. Early in 1946, they set up an unofficial inter-agency committee, and held conferences with governors of various states. By November, the committee had been able to agree on plans for 105 dams and reservoirs, and Major General Pick said that the job could be done in 10 years--if Congress would appropriate the money. November was the month, however, of the elections in which the Republicans took over both Houses, and large sums of money for such a Federal project were out of the question...
Then came the '47 floods, and although little action followed, the battle between the Pick-Sloan group and the MVA-ers increased in vigor. One prominent MVA man said scornfully that "assigning the United States Army engineers to the job of controlling floods . . . is precisely like sending Typhoid Mary to stop a typhoid epidemic." Now, with a stingy Congress and international distractions, Pick's 10-year estimate on Missouri River control should probably be changed to 100 years. And MVA, for all its local support, is apparently on the shelf for a long time to come. the only thing that...
...Houses offering eight or more nominees can pick up to four names on the ballot, while other students will be limited to three choices...
Fifteen members of the Republican Open Forum met behind closed doors yesterday to pick next year's Officers at the annual election meeting...