Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Steeplechase at Aintree practically put away. "Devon Loch wins," said the bulletin that went out on press association wires, but then: "Cancel! Cancel!'' Suddenly Devon Loch had slipped and fallen. The unexpected winner: a ioo-to-7 long shot named E.S.B. (for its sire, English Summer, and dam, Bider...
PARTNERSHIP PROJECT for the Priest Rapids Dam in Washington state will get under way soon. Major legal obstacle to the big dam, a suit challenging disposition of power sale contracts, has been withdrawn, and the Grant County Public Utility District will soon award the construction contract. Apparent low bidder: Merritt-Chapman & Scott, for $91.8 million...
...Hell's Canyon dam would repay its cost--plus interest", challenged one of the attackers. The figure at the piano lapsed from Stravinsky to Gershwin. "Besides, think of the rise in kilowatts...
...Senate voted to buy 7,000 acres of Indian reservation land for the Yellowtail Dam in the Bighorn River reclamation power project from the Crow Indian Tribe for $5,000,000. although the Federal Bureau of Reclamation had estimated that the land's actual market value is only...
Last year the Upper Colorado project was finally approved by the U.S. Senate -but its chances for House passage this year seemed doubtful. To mute the cries of the conservationists, the bill's managers agreed to drop the Echo Park dam from the House measure. Last week, while the House debated the bill, President Eisenhower made a strong plea for the bill, "an opportunity at last to treat the whole great, mighty Colorado River as a single entity, to treat it on a basin basis instead of merely local and individual. I hope we can have positive action...