Word: profits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treasure House. Ike's powerful support was thereby given to a plan which has been talked about for some 50 years and has been passed over by four previous Congresses, largely because of unrelenting opposition from 1) Southern California power interests who profit under the present distribution of Colorado River water and 2) conservationists (e.g., Ulysses S. Grant III) who for years charged (erroneously) that the big dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood out the dinosaur remains in the national park there. They have since shifted their argument to the claim that if Dinosaur National Monument...
...from the bullion, it was hard to see how Madrid could identify the gold in question with Spain's lost treasure of the civil war. By extorting this secret kickback from the Loyalists, the Communists, though on the losing side, came out of the war with a clear profit...
...likes to pass out hot tips on stocks to his millions of listeners. Last week some of the heat was on Columnist Winchell himself. In Washington SEC investigators were checking to see if cunning speculators in Florida, where Winchell vacations, had used the columnist to clean up a quick profit at the expense of foolish listeners...
...Bridges to Cross earns a profit, it will make its subject--the $2,500,000 Brink's robbery--look like petit larceny. The film's chances for financial success are limited, however, since it appeals mainly to Bostonians wanting to see some familiar scenes and to the robbery's original cast wanting to see some unfamiliar and ludicrously phoney ones. The Boston scenes, by the way, are real, for the Universal people were not satisfied with a cardboard Common. Unfortunately, however, they were perfectly satisfied with cardboard characterization and plot...
...approve initial financing of the Dixon-Yates plan to supply power to TVA at West Memphis, Ark. in exchange for a similar amount of power from TVA to the Atomic Energy Commission at Paducah, Ky. and Oak Ridge, Tenn. The contract is legal, said the lawyers, and the proposed profit to Dixon-Yates is "not significantly out of line...