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Show THE THREE-RING CIRCUS 203 "It is regrettable," said Poulson, "that a public official who knows so little about this problem should open his mouth." Shouted the Los Angeles Times: 283 "From Howser SILENCE WOULD BE WELCOME." "The Central Arizona Project," Engle told the House,284 "will cost more than the combined cost of tva and Hoover Dam, and more than twice the cost of the Panama Canal ... to 'rescue' 150,000 acres of desert land put into cultivation during the war, owned by fewer than 500 men." Murdock took the floor to say an assertion by Poulson that the Arizona project threatened all reclamation pro- jects was erroneous.285 Poulson retorted that when a man "hollers" as loud as Murdock, it is an indication that he has been hurt, and Poulson recalled that as a boy hunting coyotes, he always found the mother coyote a long way from the den in which the pups were con- cealed.286 Rep. Jackson described the project as "The Great Arizona Bubble," and charged that it was the greatest swindle since the notorious South Sea Bubble.287 Without more unexplained recollections about his boyhood, Poulson turned his guns on the publicity machinery of the Reclamation Bureau, telling Congress that Bureau representatives were going up and down the land "spreading vicious propaganda, dreaming up fantastic schemes, and giving breath to issues which have no bearing on the controversy."288 Major labor organizations had supported California in the controversy, and they became more active as the year 1950 began. Harold Shapiro, a West Coast director of the go, went to Washington to determine if there |
