Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cover) In the vast, air-conditioned, limestone building covering five acres of Washington, D.C. which Harold Ickes built for his Interior Department in 1936, there is a sixth-floor suite lovingly planned by Ickes for Ickes. Two private elevators lead to the Ickes suite; two Alaskan totem poles flank the entry hall, 55 feet long. Beyond come stenographic offices and then the Secretary's private office: walnut-floored, oak-paneled and immense (960 sq. ft., as much as a five-room house). Near by are the private aide's office, private dining room, private conference room (which Ickes...
...miles the Colorado cuts across the West, drains 246,000 square miles and-thanks to reclamation projects like Hoover Dam-makes faucets flow and deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
...week, the touring Duke of Edinburgh was taken inside a 7,000-ft. mountain where a powerhouse bigger than a cathedral had been blasted out of the solid granite. Water from glacial lakes poured down through a ten-mile tunnel to turn the turbines and set in motion the vast Kitimat project built by the Aluminum Co. of Canada. "Does it work?" shouted the duke above the machines' roar. Said a proud Alcan engineer: "You bet it does...
...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 by publicity-shy Thayer Lindsley of Toronto (TIME, June...
Into the presidency of Philco Corp. last week stepped James H. Carmine, 52. Carmine, who has sold for Philco all his business life, started in 1923 as a Pittsburgh salesman, climbed to executive vice president in 1949. He was responsible for building the vast Philco distributor chain. As successor to William Balderston, 57, who becomes board chairman, Salesman Carmine has a top-priority job: tuning Philco's merchandising to a buyers' market...