Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only two generators, large by ordinary standards, puny by those of Coulee's future, went into operation. The two supply 10,000 kilowatts. When the huge Westinghouse generators start pumping juice into the Northwest, these two will serve only to supply light and power to the dam itself. The first Big Bertha -whose parts, weighing 2,367,000 pounds, took 38 freight cars to carry them - will start in midsummer, will produce 108,000 kilowatts. When it and others like it are all turning, they will be able to pour into transmission lines 2,700,000 h.p. - about...
...Grand Coulee galleries and installations are located by reference to their altitude above sea level; top of the dam is Level...
...must get them when it needs them. The Merchant Marine needs ships for the deserted trade routes. They must be supplied. The British need ships to live. They must be supplied. Under the Lend-Lease Act, British ships may be repaired in U. S. ports. (This week a dam aged British cruiser was headed for Nor folk for repairs that will throw an added load on the yard.) They must be repaired...
...inheritance, purchase, and out-guessing his relatives at poker. Seven months from that fall day, he had built in the Ramapo hills 30 miles of roads, a sewage and water system, a park gatehouse "like a frontispiece to an English novel," 22 cottages, two blocks of stores, stables, a dam, an icehouse, clubhouse, swimming pool...
...whole companies. (Now in Congress is a bill to give BPA this power.) Fifteen months after Bonneville's generators started purring, the project's first report ruefully admitted it had only one short-term customer, no transmission lines. Anti-Federal news papers headlined: "Bonneville Dam Has Everything But Customers." Meanwhile Dr. Raver's predecessor, the late James Delmage Ross, began to go after business through Municipals and Public Utility Districts, local autonomous public-power bodies that mushroomed after the Bonneville...