Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reported gloomily that the British and French seemed in dead earnest about closing in on Nasser. Italy sent Ambassador Giovanni Fornari flying to Cairo with an urgent appeal to Nasser to soften his stand, sweetened it with a hint of big Italian construction help (FIAT) on the Aswan Dam...
...Plan of Battle. With the help of Russian technicians, the Red Chinese have drawn up an ambitious plan to straddle the Yellow and its tributaries with a vast network of dams. The first phase will take 15 years and cost $1.8 billion; the entire scheme will not be completed for at least half a century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived...
...make way for the rising waters of the Sanmen Reservoir, more than 600,000 people will be moved from their homes and resettled elsewhere. The Sanmen Reservoir will be one of the world's largest. The dam will protect the area from floods, create enough electric power for the industrial needs of three provinces, and help clear the Yellow's muddy waters downstream...
...petition asking him to run for governor. Not for 40 years had the conservative eastern Washingtonians crossed the Cascades in search of a candidate. Aided by 27,000 volunteer workers, Langlie stumped the state, edged out Clarence Dill, locally famed for selling Franklin Roosevelt on the Grand Coulee Dam idea, by 5,816 votes, while Roosevelt was carrying Washington...
...that tireless student of the Levantine press already knew that his Soviet arms deal had set the whole Arab world afire. He had played the West against the East, and come out on top; he had received arms from the East, and stood to get a dam from the West. He began to throw his weight around. When the British tried to line up Jordan with the Baghdad Pact, he counterpunched. Radio Cairo's propaganda, joined by Saudi gold and Communist intrigue, helped blow Glubb Pasha out of Jordan. Nasser's broadcasts spread hatred for the U.S. among...