Word: washing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...funds in the history of our country. The Hoover commission and some other responsible people have pointed out that Pick and Sloan are (1) planning their projects for twice as much water as exists in the entire river, (2) doing nothing about the thousands of acres of farmland which wash down the Missouri each year, (3) wasting millions of dollars by hiring out their projects to contractors instead of building things themselves, and (4) allocating millions to the development of navigation when commerce on the river is negligible. On top of all this, their administrative set-up is so complicated...
Curiously, Marin's own pictures are self-expressive and abstract. He usually lets the straight lines and angles that are the scaffolding of his compositions stand in the finished work, and prefers a careless-seeming blot of color to a smooth wash. "The very doing" of a picture, he believes, is part of what the picture has to say, so he makes his paintings look like works-in-progress...
...scientists, who possessed the same knowledge, went ahead and developed the necessary "devices": the plutonium piles at Hanford, Wash, and the U-235 separation plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Germans tried rather feebly and failed. The Russians, so far as is known, did not try at all until after the war. To start their bomb project, they did not have to wait for spy-gathered information or for the famous Smyth Report. The basic "secrets" were already in their files...