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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1945
Page
2
A humorously critical recounted misprint in a tariff list allowed duty free access for imported fruits, costing the U.S. an estimated million dollars. The piece also jingles through aviation myths, Argentina coverage, government aides, theater, and cultural notes with sharp, period tone.
The Missouri River, running 2460 miles through seven states, is to be tamed by a postwar plan. Army engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation unite for flood control irrigation power and navigation. The scheme envisions 89 dams and reservoirs, irrigation of 4.26 million acres, 17 hydro plants and multiple towns served, with a projected $1.33 billion cost to be self liquidating.
Background on Bernard Montgomery’s appointment to command two American armies, sidelining Omar Bradley, and the secrecy kept from the public. Eisenhower faced British pressure framed by Churchill and Roosevelt, while internal Pentagon opposition emerged as the reshuffle followed Normandy, Caen, Arnhem contexts.
A fragment notes untilled land near productive irrigated acreage could be made productive with adequate irrigation. The field lies a few thousand feet away from existing irrigated land and is currently overgrown with sagebrush.
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