Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with the most modern construction machines, is gathering on the U.S. and Canadian banks of the river to build the long-heralded St. Lawrence Seaway and power development. When it is finished in 1959, some 13 billion kilowatt hours of low-cost electricity, three times the output of Hoover Dam, will be generated annually by the river's waters for U.S. and Canadian industry. The river and the Great Lakes it drains will be transformed into a man-made Mediterranean, on which seagoing ships can sail westward 2,300 miles into North America's heartland...
...years, the nemesis of government economy has been the Pork Barrel. With every congressional district wanting its dam or irrigation ditch and every pressure group demanding its subsidy, the national debt has risen to some $250 billion. Under the present law, the President has no means of checking Congressional demands. Even when legislators are not under political pressure, they are usually unable to make wise budget decisions because of the difficulty of estimating the relative importance of various appropriations. Each year a number of appropriations bills are passed, and the total expenditure is not entirely clear. Among the many proposals...
PRIEST RAPIDS power project, first test of Eisenhower's "partnership" policy, cleared its last big hurdle when the Washington state legislature approved long-term sale of its surplus power to private utilities. The dam will be built by the Grant County Public Utility Districts and financed by a bond issue. The $361 million, 1,000,000 kw. Columbia River project will be one of the largest in the U.S. Scheduled completion date: summer...
...AFRICAN DAM will be built at Ka-riba Gorge on the Zambezi River. Plans projected by the Central African Federation (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) call for a $240 million dam that will have a 400-ft. wall backing up a lake 150 miles long. The first six generators to provide power for developing the mineral-rich area (uranium, copper, chrome, asbestos) will be on the line by 1961. Eventual power capacity...
...cement that can be mixed with soil to make airport runways, driveways, canal linings and dam facings...