Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...economic advisers: Don't "approve'' a project, "concur...
Vacationing in Los Angeles after an endless stint of "lecturing, writing, making television appearances," Washington's Hostess-with-the-Mostes' Perle Mesta confessed that she has turned mercenary for a good purpose. Her pet project: subsidizing 18 foreign students in their U.S. studies, footing all bills including those for tooth paste. Said Philanthropist Mesta: "That's why I have to work so hard, but why shouldn't I do it? Got no husband, got no family. Just a widow with a small income, eatin' money." Turning from stern fiscal realities to light philosophy, Perle reminisced...
...getting undressed, he noticed a red spot, like a fleabite, on the inner side of his right ankle, but thought nothing of it. Feeling fit on Monday, Sakacs, a retired Navy chief petty officer, put in a full day's work as a mechanic on a water research project at the Port Hueneme naval base. That night he had chills and fever and diarrhea, so he took the following day off and went to see an osteopath. He got a shot of penicillin, quinine for a suspected recurrence of malaria, and aspirin for the aches and pains−which...
...names 166,000 times on revenue bonds that will set in motion the nation's third biggest hydroelectric development (after Grand Coulee and Hoover Dams). It will be the first to be built under President Eisenhower's policy of power partnership between private and public utilities. The project: Columbia River dams and power plants at Priest Rapids and Wanapum, 200 miles downstream from Grand Coulee. When the $383.7 million complex is completed in 1963, it will generate 1,231,000 kw., almost twice the capacity needed by Seattle...
...over the quiet Columbia River valley. In 1950 Congress authorized 100% federal financing, for Priest Rapids, as recommended by the Army Corps of Engineers. But in 1952 P.U.D. Manager Glenn Smothers, Attorney Nat Washington Jr. and fellow Grant County inhabitants, who were convinced that the power project could and should be locally financed, battled public-power advocates in Congress to win legislation withdrawing Priest Rapids from the federal projects list. In rapid succession, Grant County P.U.D. fought court skirmishes with Washington's State Power Commission, which wanted to develop Priest Rapids itself, and with a local contractor who objected...