Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million) than it wanted for the Air Force. The two bills for which the 84th will be longest remembered: the $33 billion highway construction program, biggest public works project in U.S. history, and the dam project to bring vital power and water to the hungry, thirsty Upper Colorado River Basin...
...Approved by voice vote and sent to the House an Administration-backed bill authorizing construction of the $156 million Fryingpan-Arkansas project in Colorado. The project would funnel water from the Colorado River basin through the Continental Divide into the Arkansas River basin, where more water is badly needed for power and irrigation purposes...
...first Soviet in dustrial complex. Last year the Urals and western Siberia alone produced more pig iron than Great Britain. The magnetic mountain at Magnitogorsk has been swallowed in the furnaces, and ore now comes from mines far away. A thousand miles deeper into Siberia is the Kuznetsk basin, where it is planned to produce 80 million tons of coal a year by 1960. Around Kuznetsk, in fast-growing industrial cities -Novosibirsk, Kemerovo, Krasnoyarsk, and at Karaganda some way to the southwest-are new steel mills, blast furnaces and aluminum plants, with auxiliary industries proliferating...
...might have been expected that they would feel out of place nearly a mile upstream from their usual habitat, the M.I.T. basin, but, after all, the only thing necessary to make crew tolerable is a six-pack, and it probably passed unnoticed...
Fresh twilight gusts whipped the Charles River Basin into an unrowable sweat, and the freshman race did not get under way on the improvised upstream course until well after 6 p.m. The Yardlings also won, by slightly less than a length...