Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know that St. Mary's is doing a good job of educating at least one "dam-yankee" from Belleville, Ill., who couldn't imagine going to a "larger or better college...
...Salmon, Idaho, five beavers (Castor canadensis) came downstream on Jesse Creek and built a dam within 100 feet of a site selected by reclamation engineers, thus stabilizing the uncertain water supply and saving the city the cost of a dam...
...guessed aluminum requirements (TIME, May 26), now recognized that what had been done before was not enough. RFC had already put up money for Reynolds to build two plants in competition with Alcoa. Its near-monopoly gone or going, Alcoa depended heavily on Government electricity from TVA and Bonneville Dam for additional new plants of its own. Resultant U.S. capacity (by 1943): 700,000 tons a year, probably not enough for military needs, let alone civilian and semimilitary requirements...
...company a loan to build two new plants (now nearly completed) which will have a capacity of 60,000 tons of primary aluminum per year and give Alcoa its first substantial competition. He also told how he arranged to buy Government power from TVA in Alabama and Bonneville Dam on the Pacific Coast (as Alcoa has now done). Alabama's Senator Lister Hill then asked: ". . . Did you get any cooperation from the Defense Commission...
...hills, can even see the snouts of guns against the sky. Any Japanese or German strategist, studying maps of the Canal, knows that the guns are there to guard some of the most valuable military targets in the world: the locks in the Canal itself, and great earthen Gatun Dam (105 ft. above sea level and 400 ft. thick at the water level), where a break would empty the lake, dry up and close the Canal...