Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that Canada has been actually at war for two years, the Board has done a reasonably able job of keeping down prices of necessities, particularly rents. The work of the Board and a Government order providing wage increases as living costs rise have served as a temporary dam against inflation...
...article in TIME, Sept. 15, on Secretary Ickes proved very interesting but did not do him justice. Enclosed is a picture of a street named in the Secretary's honor [see cut]. The scene is Mason City, Wash., a small town which grew out of the Grand Coulee Dam. In the picture you may notice only back doors opening onto Ickes Avenue. This is also true of all the houses on this street...
...easy separation: manganese dioxide. But two new processes developed by the U.S. Bureau of Mines are on the point of making low-grade manganese oxide ore a useful citizen of steel metallurgy. Last week in three new pilot plants at Boulder City, Nev., where oxide ore beds adjoin Boulder Dam's cheap electricity, manganese's first citizenship papers were being signed...
...Dam. Two years ago a small army of workmen moved in. They built a dam across the Santee. From the Santee they dug a canal, built another dam, a lock and a powerhouse, diverting some of he Santee's impounded waters into the Caller Cooper River, which empties into the sea at Charleston. (The Cooper, as every Charleston schoolboy knows, "joins the Ashley River at Charleston to form the Atlantic Ocean...
...dawn to dusk. Last summers camp in New Hampshire required considerably less work, but it was felt that more insure time devoted to educational studies would be more profitable to the campers. Nevertheless, many of the boys helped nearby farmers with their haying as well as worked on the dam itself...