Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Albert Marre, who directed "Henry IV," and who played Thersites in last season's "Troilus and Cressida" will direct this production. The new costumes will be designed by Richard Baldridge, who is now teaching at the University of Iowa...
...like America ... A general air of nervousness, cheapness and corruption") to go back to Fascist Italy, waited until 35 minutes before curtain time in London, then canceled a concert because of laryngitis. The crowd of 8,000 disappointed music lovers milled around the locked doors of Royal Albert Hall, jamming traffic for almost an hour before an extra force of bobbies could persuade them to go home...
...White Nile is a tougher engineering problem. Its two huge lakes, Victoria and Albert, will be made into reservoirs with enough storage capacity to give complete control of the tributary. A lesser dam must be built to control the water in swampy Lake Kioga...
Thirsty Sudd. Below Lake Albert lies the Sudd, a vast swamp choked with papyrus and other tall grasses. The White Nile seeps slowly through this tangle, and loses nearly half its water in the process. Engineers plan to cut a canal 186 miles long, to bypass the water-stealing Sudd...
...first dam to be built on the White Nile will be at Owen Falls, at the outlet of Lake Victoria. Another will make a reservoir out of Lake Albert. When the whole system is in operation, the water of the White Nile can be held back while the Blue Nile is flowing. The system is expected to smooth out the flow of the lower Nile through Egypt and increase the cultivated area by 1,500,000 acres...