Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Inside its first cover (Montana's Fort Peck dam, by Margaret Bourke-White), the 225,000 charter subscribers and 200,000 newsstand buyers found picture stories of King Edward VIII, the black widow spider, Robert Taylor, and Spain in civil...
...trouble, Wilson told the Chicago Economic Ciub, was coming from two sources: price controls and increased labor costs. Said he, "Every artificial control is like a dam across a stream. The stream either stops flowing, or is diverted to new channels. These diverted materials are either disappearing from the market or, for cost reasons, are showing up in black market channels...
...world's biggest single power source at present is Boulder Dam (1,034,800 kw.). The installed capacity of the Consolidated Edison Co., supplying most of Greater New York, is only 2,433,000. To draw off two million kilowatts would slow the wheels of any industrial center in the world. Why did NACA want so much power? It did not tell, publicly. But others could guess: guided missiles...
What About the Dam? As the ponderous curtains of rain swept on through the darkness, San Antonio waited nervously for something worse. Would the Olmos Dam hold? It had been built after the disastrous flash flood of 1921, had been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
...dramatically as it had begun, shortly after dawn. Downtown streets were free of water by noon. The sun came out. San Antonio still waited tensely. Then the suspense ended. The sudden storm had killed six people, made 5,000 temporarily homeless, caused $5,000,000 in damages. But the dam, with the water from a mile-long lake lapping up within six feet of its rim, stood firm...