Word: pike
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truman Administration negotiated power contracts for AEC plants in Paducah, Ky. and Pike County, Ohio with regional utilities (without calling for competitive bids) for the same basic economic reasons: as AEC's power requirements rise and fall, local power companies can supply the added demand by production in their other plants or can absorb excess power through their network to other customers in the area...
...Finally, at the risk of splitting Evans in two, Burford started the boat to pull Evans loose. Then "the ugly, pear-shaped body of a giant octopus [appeared]. He was perched atop the [diver's] helmet, all eight tentacles about Evans' body." Burford slammed a pike pole through the creature's head and pulled Evans aboard. The great thing, Burford decided, is to avoid 1) panicking, 2) provoking the creatures. On those terms, he says, divers and octopuses can coexist...
...American watchmakers told the subcommittee that Swiss imports are driving them out of domestic watch production. thereby crippling national defense. Arthur S. Flemming, head of the Office of Defense Mobilization, Assistant Defense Secretary Thomas Pike and Assistant Commerce Secretary Lothair Teetor, testified that the U.S. needs an efficient watch industry...
...founded in 1859 by brawling goldseekers. At the town's first church service the minister found only one worshiper because everyone else was out hanging a Mexican horse thief. Later, however, the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad decided to cash in on the area's magnificent scenery (Pike's Peak, Garden of the Gods, etc.) and climate (69° average in summer, 29° in winter), promoted a swank resort. So many young Englishmen came that Colorado Springs was called "Little Lunnon." Amidst the Rockies they played cricket and polo; one wrote that the city was civilized...
Dirty Air. With atomic-energy plants mushrooming upriver in Ohio's Pike County and downstream at Paducah, and the first atomic-power plant scheduled for the Pittsburgh area, the control of radioactive waste waters will be a gigantic problem. Lessons learned along the Ohio will be applied to the AEC's Savannah River plant and others on the West Coast. Radioactivity in the Columbia River below the AEC's Hanford plant has not reached an alarming level, the health engineers report, and though fish pick up some, most of it settles in such inedible parts as bone...