Word: rhode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their ends without resorting to violence put a great deal of faith in satyagraha, or reliance on soul force. Sometimes this takes the form of marching demonstrators who may provoke attack but won't respond to it. As a method of persuading Portugal to give up Goa, the Rhode Island-sized colony on India's west coast, satyagraha was a failure last year. So was diplomacy...
...indeed a sad commentary on the future of federal buildings if their design is to be dictated by the Washington lobbies of building-materials trades. Imagine the final structure-a composite of Indiana limestone, California redwood, Vermont marble, Montana copper, Oregon Douglas fir and Rhode Island brick. Add one flight of New Hampshire granite steps so that the whole may be recognized as "monumental...
...hastily building traditions, politicians in Washington were lustily attacking the anything-but-traditional buildings planned for the new Air Force Academy campus at Colorado Springs. Sensitive to the fact that glass, steel and aluminum were the key materials in Air Force blueprints, Democratic Congressman John Fogarty (onetime president of Rhode Island's Bricklayers Union No.1) roared: "Glass and metal are alien to American monumental design-even to European." Picking up his lead, spokesmen for pressure groups, including the Allied Masonry Council, representing brick, limestone and marble companies and for the Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers' International Union of America...
SILVER BATTLE is brewing in the Senate over a bill to repeal the Government's silver-purchase law. Under the law, the Treasury must buy U.S.-mined silver at a fixed price of 90.14? an oz. Silver-users are backing a bill, introduced by Rhode Island's Senator Theodore Green, to eliminate silver price supports, thus drop the price, but western Senators are fighting tooth and nail to kill the idea...
...biggest single consumer of water is irrigation, which has spread from a few thousand western acres in 1850 to some 30 million acres, sprawled over such eastern and southern states as Delaware, Rhode Island, Mississippi. To grow a bushel of corn by irrigation requires about 10,000 gallons of water; to grow a ton of alfalfa hay, about 200,000 gallons. At present irrigation soaks up about 100 billion gallons of water daily, almost half the water withdrawn by the entire nation...