Word: projective
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Supporters of both the Army-Reclamation Bureau project and the MVA have been fighting it out ever since 1944. In August of that year, when Senator James Murray of 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...
...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...
Next morning he bounced out of bed for an early breakfast in Kearney. He hustled on to examine an irrigation project en route to Holdredge, addressed a businessmen's lunch, talked to a bumper crowd of 7,500 at the University of Nebraska's Coliseum...
...started it last summer, Ontario's Premier George Drew had been whooping up his air immigration scheme. When the first goal of 7,000 British immigrants was reached last month, he announced that 8,000 more would be flown in by October. Last week he killed the project. His explanation: Trade and Commerce Minister C. D. Howe wanted to grab all Ontario's immigration traffic for the government's Trans-Canada Air Lines...