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The only certain members of the relay team are Bob Berke and Captain Joe Fox, the anchor man. The other two positions will be filled by Bob Stroud or Mort Hull and Dave Stone or Lowell Sachnoff.
The Congressmen are scheduled to hear speeches by a man named Pick and another named Sloan, both of whom are well acquainted with the Missouri. Mr. Sloan works for the Bureau of Reclamation, and is building irrigation dams up and down the river; General Pick is an Army Engineer, and...
Ten years ago, Pick and Sloan were pretty incompatible. Sloan would put up a dam, and Pick would reply with another which submerged it. After a few years of this, the two men smelled a good thing, joined forces and got Congress to appropriate them funds which have so far...
They are indulging in one of the greatest wastes of public 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...
Congress will probably get a bill this season for formation of a Missouri Valley Authority, for an organization which can worry about flood control and irrigation at the same time, and end the incredible overlapping, inefficiency, and boondoggling of Pick-Sloan. The only people hurt by MVA will be a...