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...case at issue was the proposed establishment of a Columbia Power Authority, to combine Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dam in the largest public power project on earth. Grand Coulee was built by Ickes' Reclamation Bureau, and both are being temporarily managed by Ickes' able, shrewd Dr. Paul Raver. To make this control permanent, Ickes got a bill introduced in Congress setting up CPA under the Interior Department, with a single administrator to be appointed (and removed) by him. To counter this move, the Norris forces introduced a bill setting up CPA like TVA-with a three-man board...
...creek, to try for salmon with spears, gigs, pike poles, BB guns, .22s, and even with stones. Sometimes there would be a wounded fish trapped in some shallow pool. Sometimes you could see a salmon leap a falls, or jump the spillway of a lumber company's dam. There would be a dark flash barely under the water, an explosion of water as the fish broke into the air, perhaps 15 feet, and then, if it fell back, a moment when it lay stunned before the current carried it back downstream...
...fact that Canada has been actually at war for two years, the Board has done a reasonably able job of keeping down prices of necessities, particularly rents. The work of the Board and a Government order providing wage increases as living costs rise have served as a temporary dam against inflation...
...article in TIME, Sept. 15, on Secretary Ickes proved very interesting but did not do him justice. Enclosed is a picture of a street named in the Secretary's honor [see cut]. The scene is Mason City, Wash., a small town which grew out of the Grand Coulee Dam. In the picture you may notice only back doors opening onto Ickes Avenue. This is also true of all the houses on this street...
...easy separation: manganese dioxide. But two new processes developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines are on the point of making low-grade manganese oxide ore a useful citizen of steel metallurgy. Last week in three new pilot plants at Boulder City, Nev., where oxide ore beds adjoin Boulder Dam's cheap electricity, manganese's first citizenship papers were being signed...