Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connected by nine-foot channels which accommodate river barges, the 700-mile string of reservoirs from the Kentucky Dam to the Norris Dam is being called the Great Lakes of the South and are coming into their own as resorts, particularly at the Chickamauga Dam near chattanooga...
...Crete, it has broken down. A national tradition has for generations discouraged intelligence and science, to concentrate on sports and what it calls Character. Here is the result. History may decide that the kind of character that led the Russians to scorch their earth and blow up their Dnieper Dam has the higher survival value...
...perfect 20. Then they took a face from one photograph, a sky or a piece of building from another, joined them together like pieces of a mosaic, and enlarged the results until they were several times life size. The photographs came from U.S. scenes as far apart as Boulder Dam and Vermont. The battleship at the top came from the picture files of LIFE; airplanes came from the Paramount picture I Wanted Wings. The California farm worker at left glances back at a caterpillar tractor from Washington which has just passed over a Montana wheat field nestling at the foot...
...wacky welter of song & dance, romance and slapstick. With the greatest of ease he polishes off Yale, 82-to-0; Notre Dame, 6-to-5; Minnesota, 27-to-0. He beats Notre Dame with a last-minute touchdown when someone capitalizes on his fear of floods by yelling, "The dam has burst!" - frightening him the length of the field...
...battle of the Carolinas, General Muir had to get his outfit across the dried-up Pee Dee River, where the only available bridge had been "destroyed" and he could not get his motorized equipment across the rocky river bed. His solution: an order to the custodian of a power dam upstream to give him some water. The custodian deferred to military might. When the river had risen two feet, the General's engineers took guns and trucks across on improvised floats. The General was later informed that he had wasted 65,000 kilowatt hours. He was much surprised...