Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ancient city of Abydos, the great Temple of Seti I, finished in the reign of Rameses II (1324-1258 B.C.), is settling into the soft subsoil while cracks in its walls grow dangerously wider. On the Island of Philae, close to the Aswan dam and artificial lake, the Kiosk of Trajan (1st Century B.C.), in recent years so submerged that often only its upper half could be seen, has collapsed completely. On the same island, the Temple of Isis is in such danger that Egyptians have planned to move it to a safer spot...
...been destroyed and will have to be rebuilt -from the scorched earth up. By pulling in her belt again, Russia can in time make or get elsewhere what she hopes to buy from the U.S. Example: prewar Russia ordered four of nine generators from General Electric for the Dnieprostroy Dam, built five duplicates in Soviet factories, had to wait ten years. To rebuild Dnieprostroy the Russians could now build all nine, and probably faster than before. But they have ordered all nine from...
Since Bonneville Dam was built in 1937, the great Chinook salmon, far & away the handsomest and most valuable fish in North America, has been fighting a game but losing battle for survival. As every schoolboy knows, the salmon lives under a mysterious compulsion: it must go back to its birthplace to spawn. The spawning grounds of the seagoing Chinook, which once supplied a tasty 17,000 tons a year to U.S. tables, are in the Columbia River's cool, green tributaries far up in the northwest mountains...
With the help of man-made ladders and elevators, the Chinook managed to get over Bonneville (170 feet high), but was stopped cold by the 553-ft. Grand Coulee Dam 450 miles farther upstream. In the last three years, Grand Coulee (aided by river pollution and other liabilities of civilization) has cut the Chinook population in half. And the salmon's troubles are only beginning. The Army and the Department of the Interior have high-priority postwar plans to build eight more great dams on the Columbia-which might mean the fish's finish...
...Uncle Sam's Fish College think the plan will work for virtually all the Columbia's estimated 240,000 Chinooks-though it may result in a punier breed of fish. But oldtime fishermen are skeptical. Said Forest Ranger Grady Miller, gazing moodily at a Wallowa Lake dam that has completely destroyed a once-great salmon fishing ground: "Civilization and salmon...