Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Partnership means simply that Interior will help power projects, where possible, and might pay part of construction costs (for flood control and navigation benefits, both federal responsibilities). Henceforth, McKay said, the Federal Government will build only projects too big for any other outfit. Example: the $1.2 billion five-state Upper Colorado project...
Except for Case, every member is from an area where McCarthy is not the burning issue he is in the East and upper Midwest. All of the Senators are able and sin gularly individualistic. Stennis and Ervin have both had experience as judges...
...years ago Aluminum Co. of America announced a plan to build a huge aluminum smelter at Skagway, Alaska, to be powered by harnessing the waters of the upper Yukon River. The project was to cost $400 million. But there was one hitch. The Canadian government wanted the industry to be located where the power came from: in Canada. Last week Alcoa's big plan became just a set of useless blueprints. British Columbia gave the go-ahead for developing the vast power potential of the Yukon to Canada's Ventures Ltd., big mining and metal holding company headed...
...short while later President Rhee appeared on the doorstep of a brick mansion on upper 16th Street-now firmly chaperoned by Simmons. To the housekeeper who answered Rhee's ring, Simmons announced: "This is the President of the Republic of Korea." "Oh, my," gasped the woman, "I'm a sight." She managed to invite Syngman Rhee inside with some show of hospitality, however, but since the owner of the mansion (Clark Griffith, patriarch of the Washington Senators baseball club) was not at home, Patriarch Rhee declined. Instead, he clambered through some poison ivy and inspected the house next...
...Leopardi home was in the Adriatic town of Recanati, where today plaques mark the dwellings of men and women whose only fame is that they figure in Leopardi's poems. The young boy soon developed the habit of observing the life of the old town from upper windows (he scarcely ever left the house) and jotting down his observations in a notebook. At 10, he was turned loose in his father's library and spent the next seven years buried in books-"the happiest time that he had ever known...