Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...green sheets," and their justifications on white "language sheets." Soon afterward, the Budget offices buzzed with final hearings, as the bureau's examiners delved deep into controversial items. For example, in considering the money request from the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corp., Budgetmen asked to see maps of dam locations, asked why one dam was not located at a narrows. Answer: rock formations made construction more costly at the narrows than elsewhere...
...approach to foreign economic aid, requesting Congress to grant him "limited authority to make longer-term commitments." Likeliest outline of the new presidential idea: a ten-year program, ultimately totaling $1 billion, designed to provide about $100 million a year for specific foreign projects, e.g., Egypt's Aswan Dam, approved by U.S. diplomats and engineers...
There was no such barrier on the Feather River, where the proposed $400 million concrete Oroville Dam, planned as the world's largest, is still a paper dream tabled by legislative inertia. The Feather went berserk. It swept madly to its confluence with the Yuba River in the peach country just southwest of Marysville (pop. 12,500) and Yuba City (pop. 8,000). Advised to flee across the river to their sister town, the people of Marysville quickly found themselves scrambling for their lives in Yuba City, where the flood demolished levees while dikes held fast in Marysville...
...Rivers of Babylon. The development board has already built irrigation dams across the Tigris and Euphrates north of Baghdad, while dams, channels and dikes gouged by German, French, British and American contractors will catch next spring's floodwaters for the first time and lead them into new $30 million lakes at Wadi Tharthar and Habbaniya. Downstream, other contractors are digging drainage ditches and scooping silt from the ancient Babylonian water-distribution canals, now scheduled to be used again as in Hammurabi's time. In upper Iraq, a French firm is building a $28 million concrete dam at Dokan...
Clap goes the thunder, zing says the lightning, down come the rains, out goes the dam, wham goes an earthquake. Temples crash. A wall of water whirls the hero away. Fissures swallow tons of peasants, and the earth munches on them the way a cow chews oats. Lana, meanwhile, is hammering picturesquely on death's door as she battles a tropical fever, and as soon as she can walk she staggers, understandably enough, toward the nearest exit. She is apt to find it crowded...