Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...culvert and washes ballast from a canyon railroad track, a young telephone linesman, a power dispatcher, a highway superintendent for the Donner Pass section of U.S. 40, a junior meteorologist, a plane pilot, the flangers-and the dangerous steam rotaries which clear the railroad lines of snow, a dam superintendent, the men who handle the highway plows . . . men, beasts and things, in short, infinitesimally at work against the enormous collusions of air, water, sun, earth, and subtlest chance...
True, the lower Schuylkill is in a filthy condition due to drought, but that part of the river from which a portion of our supply comes is upstream of, and separated by a dam from this section...
...case at issue was the proposed establishment of a Columbia Power Authority, to combine Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dam in the largest public power project on earth. Grand Coulee was built by Ickes' Reclamation Bureau, and both are being temporarily managed by Ickes' able, shrewd Dr. Paul Raver. To make this control permanent, Ickes got a bill introduced in Congress setting up CPA under the Interior Department, with a single administrator to be appointed (and removed) by him. To counter this move, the Norris forces introduced a bill setting up CPA like TVA-with a three-man board...
...creek, to try for salmon with spears, gigs, pike poles, BB guns, .22s, and even with stones. Sometimes there would be a wounded fish trapped in some shallow pool. Sometimes you could see a salmon leap a falls, or jump the spillway of a lumber company's dam. There would be a dark flash barely under the water, an explosion of water as the fish broke into the air, perhaps 15 feet, and then, if it fell back, a moment when it lay stunned before the current carried it back downstream...
...great coal reserves as the Donets Basin, now in German hands. Oil fields in the plains adjoining the Urals have been developed to the point where they could partially compensate for the loss of Baku. The area should not lack water power: on the Angara River the biggest power dam in the world is being built. Even without the good black earth of the Ukraine, Russia could be agriculturally self-sufficient...