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...argue with a river, said the Secretary of State: it is going to flow. You can dam it or damn it, put it to useful purposes or divert it, but you can't argue with it. The U.S., Dean Acheson said, was through trying to argue with the torrent of Communism. "Therefore," he said, "we go to work ... to change those situations of weakness so that they won't create opportunities for fishing and opportunities for. trouble . . . We are trying to extend the area of possible agreement with the Soviet Union by creating situations so strong that they...
...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 totalled more than a billion dollars. At the present time, Pick and Sloan are putting up levees and dams, and digging ditches along more than 2000 miles of their river...
...Force Base at Dayton, he demonstrated his capabilities as a pilot by flying a 6-25 bomber on a 25-minute hop. He was still going strong, still finding the country wonderful, still looking, forward, with no perceptible glazing of the eyes, to visiting the Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles, and Sun Valley, Idaho...
Before 1933, there was a negligible amount of publicly-produced power. The Hoover Dam had been commissioned to sell falling water, not electricity, to the private utilities. Under the New Deal, public power was used to bring electricity to markets that had been ignored by the private companies. Now the Fair Deal promises to extend the field and is brushing shoulders with already established companies. In most cases, public power drives out private companies...
...market. This last argument has less significance that it used to because of the fallen interest rate. But these companies insist that the tax differential amounts to a subsidy of the public plants. Their argument is summed up in a caption that appeared under a picture of Grand Coulee dam in "Fortune"--"Grand Coulee: Its power is majestic, symbolic, and subsidized...