Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Upper Basin of the Colorado River is 110,000 square miles of Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona, all thirsting for water to develop their rich mineral resources and irrigate their potentially fine farmlands (TIME, Jan. 31, 1955). For 50 years basin planners have talked about a vast power and reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National...
...House Ways and Means Committee, in approving a money-raising section of the vast road construction program, voted to assess highway users nearly $14 billion in new taxes over the next 16 years. Among the committee recommendations: a 1? hike in the present 2?-per-gallon gasoline and diesel fuel tax; a 3?-per-lb. increase in the present 5?-per-lb. tire tax; a 2% increase in the tax on the sales price of trucks, buses and trailers; a new annual tax of $1.50 per 1,000 lbs. on trucks weighing more than...
...circumstances surrounding the President's candidacy invite the expression of deep Democratic doubts about the regency in prospect. Let it also be said, however, that such a campaign alone can hardly assure Democratic victory. There is vast popular affection for Ike. His Administration is vulnerable on many matters; but its record can only be challenged by a party which has a deep and passionate liberal faith. At this moment the Democratic Party is shadowed by the racist war of Jim Eastland, by the attempted gas "giveaway" of Lyndon Johnson and by Walter George's crusade against an expanded...
Some of the younger Nationalists and their wives thought the occasion called for a gesture of thanks to their leader. They organized a victory march on Groote Schuur (Great Barn), the vast Dutch Colonial pile, once the mansion of Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes, that is now the Cape Town residence of the Prime Minister. Around 9 of the summer's evening, a caravan of 130 cars, filled with 156 Nationalist parliamentarians and wives, drove slowly up to the great house whose grounds overlook two oceans. "We have come to sing," announced a spokesman. Mrs. Strydom invited the crowd inside...
...dagga traffic has been on the rise recently, and local police have long suspected the existence of some great new source of the drug. On patrol of the foothills lying beneath the great, rugged Drakensberg Mountains a fortnight ago, a party of seven policemen discovered one such source-a vast valley planted solidly with the grey-green weed. They sent a messenger to the nearest police station to report their find, then began tearing out the plants one by one. Suddenly from the mountain above there came a fierce Zulu battle cry. Down the hill raced a horde of black...