Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election of a Republican Congress. He also decided to turn a simple "get-out-the-vote" TV-radio appearance this week into another appeal for a G.O.P. Congress, and he will make still another plea on election eve. Some of his new spirit was displayed in a letter to Rural Electrification Administrator Ancher Nelsen. With scarcely concealed anger, Ike took notice that some Democrats (and Wayne Morse) were charging that the Administration was hostile to REA and planned to curtail its work. Wrote Ike: "This is part of a general fear psychology now being adroitly generated in many fields...
...battle lines are clearly drawn. Said Allott, early in his campaign: "The issue is clearly defined: Do we go back to what we had with Truman, or do we go ahead with Ike?" Carroll accepted Ike as the issue, has attacked the Administration's farm, reclamation and rural electrification policies with considerable effect. With the help he can expect to get from Big Ed Johnson, who is a shoo-in for governor, Jinx Carroll should live up to his nickname as far as Allott is concerned...
...school was established in 1862 as one of the many "land grant" colleges authorized to teach agriculture and mechanical arts, and it came very close to being set up as a part of Harvard University. The state legislature finally decided, however, that a more rural location would be preferable for the new college, and thus the 1,000-acre Amherst site was selected...
...generating capacity will be built by the private companies. Best of all, wholesale power costs to the cooperatives will drop from ii mills to 8? mills a kwh. Said Ancher Nelson: "The agreement might well become a pattern for other states with power supply and cost problems in rural areas...
...Together. The peacemaker in the feud was Ancher Nelson, 49, a plain-spoken Minnesota Republican who was a farmer until he was appointed by President Eisenhower last year to replace onetime Agricultural Secretary Claude Wickard as boss of the Rural Electrification Administration. Shortly after he went into office, heads of the East Kentucky cooperative sought him out to plead their case in the long fight. The REA had authorized $28 million in loans to build a power plant at Ford and 798 miles of transmission line. But after giving the co-ops $15 million, the Government agency had stopped handing...