Word: dam
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MINDEN, La.-The body of a 28-year-old Negro who "carried pictures of nude white women" was found beaten to death on the dam of a small lake near here last Friday, and deputy coroner Thomas Richardson today described the killing as a lynching...
...have to do. He signed it "with reluctance." He also attached a message. To the public he said that holding prices in line was as much its job as it was Government's. To the Congress he said that if the bill and the people themselves fail to dam inflation he would call Congress back into a special session to frame a stronger...
O.P.A. or no O.P.A., the consumer will be doing the right thing by himself and his fellows by out waiting those who stop the flood of production from irrigating the country's dry economy. If you wait long enough the dam will have to overflow. If you have a choice, do not buy. More and better will be had for less within a year. Even the N.A.M. says...
Water & Power. The $31,000,000 Republican Dam, which Pick expects to have finished in 1950, will open up 90,000 acres to irrigation, boost farmers' income an estimated $2.5 million a year. That is only a small piece of the whole vast undertaking which covers an area bigger than France, Spain and Italy combined...
Last week, Army engineers started on Cherry Creek Dam, near Denver. Flood walls are being pushed up to make a levee system from Sioux City to Big Muddy's mouth above St. Louis. Soon the bulldozer battalions will move in on one of the biggest jobs of all-the huge dam and 200-mile-long lake at Garrison, N.D. Kanopolis Dam on the Smoky Hill, Kortes