Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While neighbors looked on approvingly, bulldozers dragged the fertile topsoil from John Haussermann's farm near Alma, Neb. and dug deep into the subsoil. The draglines and scrapers were collecting fill for a dam across one of Big Muddy's most fractious tributaries, the Republican. After more than a century of periodic suspense and terror, men were harnessing their old enemy, the Missouri River...
...treaty provides that the Russians can build a dam on the Murghab River, to irrigate the barren steppes of the neighboring Turkmen Soviet Republic. It also consolidates Russia's hold on the strategically important Trans-Caspian Railroad, a branch of which ends at Kushka, near Afghan and Iranian oil. In return, Afghanistan got a couple of small islands...
...urban and industrial reconstruction, the Ukraine has fine executive and technical talent at the top official and engineering levels. Lower down is a notable lack of tools, trained supervisors and skilled labor. At the Dnieper Dam, the three head engineers were pupils of the dam's late famed U.S. builder, Hugh Cooper. Two of them had studied in the U.S. Their assistants, however, are inexperienced young engineers. Qualified foremen are rare and 40% of the labor force is made up of inefficient peasant girls, many of whom are prematurely aged by the hard manual work...
...Center would crowd the coyotes out of a 100-square-mile patch of desert, probably somewhere near Boulder Dam or Grand Coulee. Site specifications called for level country surrounded by hilly terrain for "shielding hazardous developments," one million horsepower of cheap electric power, a steady flow of cold water at a rate of 250,000 gallons a minute. By 1955, said the Army, some 4,000 men would be working at the Center...
Some new faces in old jobs last week: James E. Day, 40, well-tailored, Illinois-born investment broker, became president of the Chicago Stock Exchange. To get ready for the job, Jim Day helped build a dam in Arizona, made and lost a fortune in real estate, took a law degree, was vice president of the Exchange for two years. His plan for La Salle Street: get more Midwestern stocks...