Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIMOTHY TUNG Columbia...
...Republican range who voted with the Democrats three times out of four in the 81st Congress, took nine minutes to answer it. Look up the Republican platform, he said, and you will find that the Morse record closely followed it. Other questioners wanted to know about the Columbia Valley Administration and the Administration's health insurance bill. He opposed CVA, he explained, because it would take control of the Northwest from the states and hand it over to the Federal Government. He was against the health bill for much the same reason. But, he warned, "The doctors...
...Hanford Plutonium Works. Its 24,000 residents seemed to live in an atomic-age Utopia. With no effort from them, Government planning had methodically channeled the city's burgeoning population into neatly curving rows of comfortable frame houses. Sputtering Government sprinklers had drawn green grass from the arid Columbia River basin in defiance of the gritty desert winds from the Horse Heaven Hills...
While a violent storm lashed British Columbia a fortnight ago, the 101-ton tug George McGregor was returning without tow from Bamberton to Victoria. Rounding Trial Island, near Victoria, she caught the full blast of the gale and the pull of the riptide. The combination was too much. She began to roll, then capsized and sank...
...They Won't Forget, Dust Be My Destiny, Edge of Darkness) but not much satisfaction. In 1946 he branched out as a writer-director (Johnny 0'Clock), then tried just directing (Body and Soul). Next, having set up Robert Rossen Productions through a financing-distributing deal with Columbia, he became a producer (The Undercover Man). His latest film is his first crack at writing, producing and directing all at once...