Word: sloane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state in the editorial that Congress has appropriated funds for the Missouri Basin "which have thus far totaled more than a billion dollars." The records are readily available in Washington and show that to date the total appropriations for the Pick-Sloan plan are much less than a billion dollars...
...charge that the Pick-Sloan plan is being planned for twice as much water as exists in the entire river. It would be interesting to know on what facts, or even estimates, this charge is based. The only actual studies of the water in the Missouri Basin have been made a committee of state engineers. These studies of the records for a fifty-year period show that the average annual flow at Yankton, S. Dak, is approximately 23,500,000 acre feet, which is more than 1,000,000 acre feet in excess of the amount estimated to be needed...
...FOUR-CHAMBERED HEART (187 pp.) -Ana'is Nin-Due//, Sloan & Pearce...
They are indulging in one of the greatest wastes of public funds in the history of our country. The Hoover commission and some other responsible people have pointed out that Pick and Sloan are (1) planning their projects for twice as much water as exists in the entire river, (2) doing nothing about the thousands of acres of farmland which wash down the Missouri each year, (3) wasting millions of dollars by hiring out their projects to contractors instead of building things themselves, and (4) allocating millions to the development of navigation when commerce on the river is negligible...
Congress will probably get a bill this season for formation of a Missouri Valley Authority, for an organization which can worry about flood control and irrigation at the same time, and end the incredible overlapping, inefficiency, and boondoggling of Pick-Sloan. The only people hurt by MVA will be a few manufactures who like to ship by water and the many contractors who are cleaning up on the present plan. If these men can be headed off and MVA finally approved, the country stands to save a few billion dollars...