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Show 220 WAR FOR THE COLORADO RIVER Mr. Pillion: "May I have the estimated cost?" Mr. Keesee: "The estimated cost of the project is $212 million. Mr. Pillion: "How much?" Mr. Keesee: "$212 million." Mr. Pillion: "$212 million?" Mr. Keesee: "Yes. $211,845,000." Mr. Pillion: I am speechless. That would take care of eleven hundred families at an estimated cost of $200,000 per family." The House committee was taking its job seriously, but an understandable ennui exposed itself now and then in faces, gestures and words. Most of them had heard it all before. If a new face and a fresh voice appeared the committeemen perked up, enjoying the relief. One such brief respite came with the appearance of three men named Bradley, father and two sons, and all doctors. Dr. Richard C. Bradley was a physicist from Cornell University, and he had appeared before the Senate committee in opposition to Echo Park Dam. Now he stood beside his father, Dr. Harold Bradley, and his brother, Dr. David J. Bradley, who was not only a practicing physician but a New Hampshire legislator.270 "If you get weary of Bradleys," said Dr. David to Chairman Aspinall, "let me warn you there are four more in reserve if anything should happen to the ones here." "What I want to know is," Aspinall said, "do you have any other side? Are you all boys or do you have some girls?" Dr. David smiled at his parent, and told Aspinall: |