Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Near Redding, Calif. last week, a $100,000,000 wonder of the world neared completion (84%). By the first of next year, months ahead of schedule, Shasta Dam will go to work...
Just above Dubuque, the Coast Guard's Del Commune ran into real trouble last week. The Mississippi's Dam No. 11 was frozen tight; the little towboat had to stand by for five hours while men thawed out the valves with hot water, cut away 20-inch slabs of ice from behind the gates, finally nursed them open. Then the Del Commune moved upstream through the locks-into an icefield that stretched from bank to bank as far as the eye could...
...headed the Del Commune back to the dam, tied up for the night...
...partial operation for some months. Shipyards at Nikolaev on the Bug River are probably building much-needed vessels for Germany's merchant fleet plying between Rumanian ports and the threatened Crimea. The Germans are taking iron from mines at Krivoi Rog, manganese from Nikopol. The great Dnieper power dam-pride of prewar Russia-was partly wrecked just before the Red Army retreated across the Dnieper in September 1941, but in late 1942 the Germans were well along with repairs. At least in the richest part...
Editor Purdy's first Victory, printed mainly to induce Congress to appropriate enough money to finance it, was a handsome 80-page job printed on heavy slick paper. After excellent air views of New York City and Boulder Dam, a fine shot of a tree-shaded, U.S. residential street and a picture of an Indiana dirt road complete with rugged farmer, there were full-page color photos of Franklin Roosevelt (with a story about him) and Henry Wallace (with an article by him). Other features: a three-page color spread of Marines training for combat; a double-truck photo...