Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First, the commission ruled out Nez Perce because it would have killed more migrating Chinook salmon and steelhead fish than the High Mountain Sheep Dam. Some 200,000 fishermen and conservationists in the Northwest are already alarmed at the toll that such great dams in the Columbia River Basin as Bonneville and Grand Coulee are exacting on the $12 million-a-year salmon business. Second, the five Kennedy-appointed commissioners unanimously knocked down the Government's dam-building bid on the grounds that Pacific Northwest could do everything the Government proposed to do, and faster. And finally...
...flooding along the Snake and will generate 2,000,000 kw. in a booming region whose power needs are growing by 15% a year. Washington public power spokesmen, plainly miffed, claimed that their huge Nez Perce project would generate 3,200,000 kw., and would tame the flood-prone Salmon River as well as the Snake...
...particularly necessary in the welfare state, which can provide men with the necessities of life but not the luxuries that give grace, joy and meaning to existence. "We try to have the personal touch for the poor in this world of the Social Security card," says French-born Michel Salmon, head of Chicago's four Brothers. "We try to help them because they are Mr. and Mrs. So-and-So, not because they are poor...
...Irishmen. "We try," says one executive, "to fit the image Americans have of the Irish." Fattening the image, creamy-cheeked stewardesses in heather-flecked tweeds or linens welcome passengers aboard "shamrock flights." They feed them in first class on Royal Tara china with such delicacies as grilled Liffey salmon steaks, Irish coffee and Guinness stout. All the while, Irish jigs frolic over the intercom and the captain communicates in a bog-thickened brogue. Such blarney-and the practical advantage that the Irish government permits only state-owned Aer Lingus to land at Dublin as well as Shannon-last year accounted...
...human contacts with his customers. "We cannot," he says, "become a factory." In his cherry-walled and beige-carpeted office in San Francisco, he receives a steady stream of visitors, also seeks to keep abreast of changing banking needs by traveling much of his time. Aside from an occasional salmon-fishing expedition, most of Peterson's life is devoted to his banking work...