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General Robert E. Lee also read the Yankee newspapers with devoted attention. When the War Department in Washington tried to dam the leaks, the Union papers cried "freedom of the press." The Chicago Times denounced Government censorship of the telegraph lines as a "most odious tyranny, with no parallel in the annals of free nations." But by the end of the war, the press had accepted the Army's insistence that it show some responsibility. On their side, most of the generals recognized the correspondent as at least a necessary evil; they began to accredit him officially, supply...
...Seattle last December, Army district engineers opened bids on contracts for generators and transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam on the Columbia River near Bridgeport, Wash. A $6,238,373 bid by Britain's English Electric Co. Ltd. undercut closest American competition by $931,788, or 13%. But the Buy American Act of 1933 requires federal purchase of U.S.-made goods unless the U.S. price is more than 25% higher than an import...
...Then, last fall, a 78-year-old Sioux patriarch named Clarence Grey Eagle went on the warpath. He had witnessed the great chief's death when he was a boy of 16; when he heard that the grave was to be covered with water from the new Oahe Dam, he hurried indignantly to Mobridge (pop. 3,800), S.Dak. Would the Chamber of Commerce build a memorial, he asked, if he moved the chief's remains across the state line and reburied them near town...
...matched by overtures to the Arabs. Half an hour after the vote, the Bonn government announced resumption of economic talks with Egypt, and added that a team of German engineers had just arrived in Cairo to survey the possibility of building the world's largest power and irrigation dam on the Nile. Vital statistics: a dam. 42 miles long, to cost $286 million and to take 10 to 15 years to build, which would increase Egypt's arable land by 40%, help solve its water problem for 200 years...
...P.U.D.'s are bound to fight. But Robinson, with two victories under his belt, thinks that at long last the tide is turning in favor of private powor in the Northwest. Recently, the Washington legislature passed a bill allowing public and private utilities to buy jointly or build dams to generate power. One such deal already in the making: to build a dam at Priest Rapids on the Columbia River. With power still short in the Northwest, it looks as if there is still plenty of room for private enterprise, thanks to tough-minded Kinsey Robinson...