Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...professionals for its daring and won the assent of kibitzers for its instinctive rightness. With an open show of sternness, Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advised Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser that the U.S. is no longer interested in building the $1.3 billion Aswan High Dam...
...public "pleasuring ground." Thus was created Yellowstone, still the largest (3,450 square miles), as well as the oldest of the national parks, and visited in the last 84 years by an army of 19 million. But the wonders of Yellowstone have yielded first place in popularity to Hoover Dam's Lake Mead in the desert country at the Arizona-Nevada border. Close behind Lake Mead's 2,675,000-a-year traffic come the Great Smokies, with 2,580,000 a year. The newest of the parks, Florida's swampy Everglades, 1,258,000 acres...
Soviet Foreign Minister Dmitry Shepilov reportedly has offered an easy-credit loan to help Egypt build its High Dam on the Nile at Aswan. Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser is happy to have a counteroffer to set against the $270 million primary financing proposed by the U.S., Britain and the World Bank. (The Western offer awaits some ironing out of details, and is also stalled by U.S. reconsideration of where Nasser stands since his arms deal with Communist Czechoslovakia.) To get the Russian loan, Nasser would have to mortgage Egypt's all-important cotton crops...
NORTHWEST POWER partnership will get big boost this fall with start of $200 million Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River. Last obstacle was removed when Puget Sound Power & Light Co. agreed to sell its share of another Columbia River plant to Chelan County Public Utility District in return for half of power from new Rocky Reach Dam. FPC has given Chelan County PUD license to start building 630,000-kw. project as soon as possible...
...personal skill than on the international appeal of the policies he is obliged to follow. Right from the start of his Middle Eastern tour, Shepilov ran into one setback after another. In Cairo, Shepilov's indication that Russia was prepared to underwrite the entire cost of the High Dam at Aswan was received with polite evasiveness by his old friend Lieut. Colonel Nasser, who, up until now at least, has indicated a clear preference for having the U.S., Britain and the World Bank finance his dam...