Word: aqueduct
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they poured westward across the desert, through the mountains, came at last into the thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
...biggest engineering projects in the U.S., the new aqueduct system has been under construction for eight years, cost $186,000,000. It has been taking shape ever since a few farseeing citizens of Los Angeles discovered 18 years ago that their supply of ground water was shrinking, that Southern California's average 15 inches of rainfall a year was not enough to support its fast-growing population...
...bill authorizing Boulder Dam in 1928, eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...
Last week, for three days, a small force of Australians, New Zealanders and Britons dug themselves in on the heights above the pass's little mill and aqueduct, near its hot springs, and poured down fire so that the Germans could neither scale the heights nor move along the narrow strip of shore. One of the earliest fifth columnists, a Greek from Malis, betrayed the Spartans by leading the Persians through a mountain path around to the rear of the Greeks. Last week the Germans finally took Thermopylae by the same operation, but, like the pass, on a much...
...only six of the 45 big race tracks in the U. S. (Aqueduct, Belmont Park, Saratoga, Pimlico, Delaware Park, Laurel Park) can railbirds see the sportiest of all horse races, a steeplechase. Last week, when beautiful Belmont Park opened its 24-day spring meeting, most of New York's racing fans looked forward to seeing Bimelech and his high-toned contemporaries in some of America's most famed flat races. Dyed-in-the-tweed "regulars" were equally eager to scan the 1940 crop of jumpers...