Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tinker's Dam. Had 1946 ended as it began, Molotov would have been the year's man. He rode the postwar Russian flood, whipping it with a hard wind of propaganda. It welled up to the Persian plateau 22 miles from Teheran; it seeped deeply into China, licked at Tripolitania, reached for the Dardanelles, almost engulfed Trieste, soaked Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, threatened Germany, Austria, and even (through Russia's Communist Parties) Italy and France...
Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...Government would take all the responsibility (hitherto shared with private capital) for developing the country's irrigable lands. Five million acres already have been reclaimed. New projects would reclaim an additional 50 million acres, which would be subject to Government supervision. For the elaborate new program of dam building, power development, soil study and land colonization. Aleman allotted the newly created Ministry of Hydraulic Resources a big chunk of the federal budget...
From Gulf to Gulf. This year three huge irrigation plants and half a dozen smaller projects have been completed. The "Lázaro Cárdenas," fourth largest earthen dam in the world, held back the waters of the Nazas River ia September 1944, during the worst flood in 53 years, protected the cities of Torreón, Lerdo and Gómes Palacio in the plains of northern Mexico. This more than compensated for the $16 million the dam has cost to date. On the 280,000 acres it irrigates live 35,000 peasant families...
Some of the projects on Orive Alba's calendar are called Mexican TVAs. One will dam the picturesque Papaloapan River near Veracruz, another will use the waters of the Rio del Fuerte, near the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. A third project: a joint U.S.-Mexican scheme to use waters from the Rio Bravo (Rio Grande) to irrigate 500,000 acres on each side of the river and generate 200 million kilowatts for joint use. Of the three dams to be built, the first alone will cost more than $35,000,000, of which the U.S. will...