Word: west
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...research and design, leaving the job of building reactors for commercial power to private enterprise. He drew much of the blame for AEC's heavily attacked (and long since canceled) Dixon-Yates contract, under which a private utility firm was supposed to build a power plant at West Memphis, Ark., right in the jealously guarded public-power domain of the Tennessee Valley Authority. He outraged stop-the-tests advocates by urging continued nuclear tests, with emphasis on developing "clean" weapons...
...president of Rotary International in 1932-33. In Washington, he and his wife Henrietta (the Andersons have a married daughter and son, three grandchildren) avoid the canapé circuit, spend their evenings at home, reading from one of the nation's finest libraries on the history of the West...
...When I was a boy," said Dwight Eisenhower, "it was thought we could live our lives on a little piece of ground in the West, and the older folks-grandfather and grandmother-could live in the same home after their days of hard work were ended. That's the way we took care of ourselves and our older people. Today, through the changes in our industrial system, we as a people have become dependent for old-age security more and more upon pensions, insurance policies, savings bonds and savings accounts. These are the people that are particularly hurt...
...must to all Democratic presidential prospectors, the time had come for Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington to head west in quest of the golden nuggets-California's 76 delegate votes at the 1960 national convention. Winding up a six-day California trip last week, Symington was following the trail already blazed this year by Massachusetts' Senator John Kennedy and Minnesota's Senator Hubert Humphrey. Indeed, so worn has the trail become that Symington stopped at most of the same political watering holes and camp sites...
...home of his old, close friend, Oilman Edwin Pauley. Symington moved easily among guests ranging from Frank Sinatra to Hotelman Conrad Hilton. But he also spent a long while in private, animated conversation with Host Pauley, whose wealth and whose influence as Harry Truman's top West Coast follower are Symington's best hopes for striking California pay dirt...