Word: tenn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until 1946 that Congress authorized financing for a 232-mile waterway, which by the time work was scheduled to begin in 1971 was budgeted at $323 million. As plans stand, Tenn-Tom, now priced at $1.6 billion, will require the construction of six dams and eleven locks, digging a 27-mile channel through the foothills of the Tennessee ridge and moving more earth than did the construction of the Panama Canal...
...what end? Proponents of the project tout it as the salvation of what is now one of the nation's poorest regions. Mississippi Senator John Stennis calls Tenn-Tom "the greatest economic milestone since the Louisiana Purchase." Says Alabama Governor George Wallace, who detonated the first blast of dynamite inaugurating Tenn-Tom: "I'll do everything in my power to see that this worthwhile project is carried through to the finish." Already $189 million in federal funds has been spent...
...project's detractors are many. The Army Corps of Engineers now estimates Tenn-Tom will return only 87? for every dollar spent. The chief cargo on the inland waterway would be coal carried by barges. According to one official of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, which is suing to stop construction, "the money this is costing would let us haul all the coal of western Kentucky for 500 years for free." Argues another observer: "If nature gave this country the Mississippi River, there is no reason the Corps of Engineers can't do the same thing and call...
...Episcopal priest, the Rev. Claudius I. Vermilye Jr., who ran a farm for wayward teens in Winchester, Tenn., is awaiting trial on charges that he staged homosexual orgies with boys on the farm and mailed pictures of activities to donors around the country...
...Frank E. Seidman Foundation, which presents the award in association with Southwestern University in Memphis, Tenn., offers a cash prize of $10,000 to each year's winner...