Word: northwest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle would certainly go to the Supreme Court. Secretary Dennis was the cynosure among the other ten Communists on trial with him. He was surrounded by an aura of mystery. According to the party's carefully manufactured legend, he had come out of the lumber camps of the Northwest. At first glance he looked the part-big, broad-shouldered, ruddy and impressive. At second glance he turned out to be a puffy, tweedy, middle-aged man with fluffy grey hair, a small, uncertain mouth and plump, pink cheeks...
...main shock of the quake, the most violent and widespread ever to hit the Pacific Northwest, lasted for 40 seconds. When it ended, every activity of the region had been wrenched askew. Hardly an automobile, truck or bus moved; the downtown streets of Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma and other cities were jammed with motionless cars and tens of thousands of people, who had spilled out of doorways, milled between the cars, gazing fearfully upward. Some of the frantic thought of an atom bomb...
...week's end, from Vancouver, Wash, to Vancouver, B.C., there was only one topic of conversation-the quake. But, most agreed, the Pacific Northwest had been pretty lucky...
...kind of story that nightclub pressagents lie awake mornings trying to contrive, knowing that the tabloids will lap it up if it can be made to look like hot news. One morning last week, while other Manhattan papers were playing photographs of the Northwest's earthquake (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) on their front pages, the New York Daily News coolly threw its quake pictures on the floor. It had exclusive, newsstand-shocking news of its own; on Page One, the Daily News slapped a full-page action shot of Stripteasers Georgia Sothern and Joann Collier, zestfully clawing each other outside...
...private enterprise and the existing federal agencies were providing the Northwest with cheap, abundant power, and if they were effectively handling the problems of irrigation, navigation, conservation, and flood control, then a CVA would be superfluous. But private business and the bureaus are not doing even an acceptable job in these fields. So it is up to the Government--which is already socialistically entrenched in the Columbia Valley--to do its work better through the medium of an independent agency like the CVA. If the Eighty-First Congress manages to break through the power-lobby smokescreen to pass...