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...until 1906, when he was 40, did Artist Leigh go West. He did it then by persuading the Santa Fe Railroad to give him a free ticket in return for a painting of the Grand Canyon. The company ordered five more Grand Canyon pictures on the strength of the first, and between his Can yon commissions, Leigh roamed the vast, raw, neighboring country on horseback, sketching as he went...
Although the privately-owned Idaho Power Company is still trying to stir up public opinion against "socialism" so that private companies can build the Hell's Canyon project, most companies are content to use power from government dams...
...island valley are 106,000 peasants, many of whom must still be convinced that President Magloire's favorite project is bon. Within 40 months, Haiti will have one of the world's highest buttress dams wedged in Peligre Canyon, 225 ft. high and 1,075 ft. wide, backing up some 328 million cubic meters of water. This water will flow 60 miles to the smaller intake dam at Canneau, where it will be diverted into canals to irrigate 80,000 acres of their land. Yet many black farmers cannot understand the need for the project. Used to primitive...
...beard. Jon was ship's biologist during the 87-day oceanographic cruise of the tug Kevin Moran, which scoured the Atlantic from New England to the Azores, covering 10,000 miles. Prize discovery, according to Columbia Geologist W. Maurice Ewing, head of the expedition, was a mysterious submarine canyon, 250-300 ft. deep, winding 800 miles across the mid-ocean floor three miles below the surface...
...small army of prospector friends five years to prove them wrong. Roaming the U.S., they found the bright greens in tiny pockets from Alaska to Wyoming, discovered the rare rose jade in a single small boulder in California, the even rarer white jade in a steep Arizona canyon. Kraft studied great windows of the past, decided that a simple cross would be the best design, then began cutting the hard stone to a thickness of three millimeters (about as thick as a half-dollar). He had to call in professional lapidaries to help with the cutting and polishing, but still...