Word: valleys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government. Some 600 bachelor officers and civilians are housed downtown in the rambling American Arms Hotel. Nearly 400 single girls take their ease in the $2,760,000 Amelia Earhart Residence Hotel, seven stories of attractive rooms complete with wall-to-wall carpeting and picture windows overlooking the Rhine valley...
Block & Tackle. Around the gracious, red brick campus, the football area is known tersely as "Vaught's Valley." Into the valley each afternoon strides Coach Vaught, his square shoulders bulging a red sweatshirt out of shape, to teach a brand of football that is as tough as he looks-and as tough as he himself once played. Back at Texas Christian they still remember one tackle made in 1932 by All-America Guard Vaught that left both the ball carrier and himself lying senseless on the field. "I'm a fundamentalist," Vaught says. "I believe in perfection...
...years following that plea by Franklin Roosevelt in 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority became the swirling center of a great national controversy. Castigated by its enemies as a socialistic octopus, defended by its friends as an amiable and beneficent giant, the TVA wielded the power of government to tame the floods of the Tennessee River and revitalize its vast and poverty-stricken valley, stretching over 80,000 square miles into seven states. This week the TVA, now accepted as a permanent part of the U.S. scene by friend and foe alike, showed the initiative of a private enterprise...
Such additions were made necessary by the valley's tremendous growth. TVA has reforested the river's valley, created a chain of fish-stocked lakes and a recreation industry, used its coal and water supplies to become the biggest U.S. electric-generating company, wholesaling its power to 153 local electric systems, several federal agencies, and private companies that have been attracted to the valley-all at rates well below most of the U.S. TVA serves such big, power-hungry customers as Reynolds Metals, Alcoa, Monsanto, National Carbide and Hooker Chemical. Since TVA began, a seven-state area that...
Symbol for the World. Such success has made TVA an envied model of Government initiative around the world. It has served as a model for such regional resource developments as India's Damodar Valley Corp., Australia's Snowy Mountains Scheme and Iran's Khuzestan Development Service...