Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montana country west of Yellowstone Park, a full moon, shining on the pine-covered mountains, etched the thin, black notch of canyon where the trout-filled Madison River winds away from Hebgen Lake. Near the canyon mouth, seven miles below the Montana Power Co.'s 87-ft.-high dam, Purley R. Bennett, a Coeur d'Alene, Idaho truck driver, and his wife Irene had gone to sleep in their trailer. Outside, their three sons and daughter were rolled up in sleeping bags on the ground. At 11:30 p.m. an "indescribable" roar woke them all. What followed would...
...Lecturer. The hecklers' assault began at a hydroelectric dam near Novosibirsk, where 30-year-old Electrician Grigory Fedorovich Belousov thrust himself forward and proclaimed belligerently: "The Soviet Union has no military bases outside her borders, but the U.S. has many in foreign countries. Why is that, I'd like to know...
...campaign for competitive coexistence with Iraq, Nasser was able to take advantage of another set of coexisting competitors. Already accepting Soviet aid to build his Aswan Dam, Nasser last week signed an $8,000,000 agreement with the U.S. to resume the technical-aid program broken off in the Suez crisis...
Obsession. The Communists have so far not tried to impose Chinese people's communes on North Viet Nam. But less than 20% of the peasants have joined government-sponsored cooperatives, and the party magazine, Nguyen Dam, berates the farmers' "obsession to produce individually." Despite a Soviet loan of 100 million rubles. North Viet Nam's three-year plan (1958-60) is lagging...
ENGLISH ELECTRIC CO. will supply power-generating turbines to South Dakota's Big Bend dam. After Office of Civil and Defense Mobilization reversed previous ruling that national security would be endangered if foreign company received contracts (TIME, June 22), Government accepted $6,512,331 bid of British firm, rejecting low U.S. offer of $9,301,815 by Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton Corp...