Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kansas' First District (Topeka). Democrat Howard Miller slipped into the seat in 1952 because of local opposition to a Republican-favored dam (his 1952 campaign slogan: "Let's stop dam foolishness"). With the dam issue quieted down, G.O.P. Nominee William H. Avery, a Wakefield farmer, is expected to recapture the traditionally Republican district...
...Your entertaining report ... is vivid and accurate, except for one paragraph. Opposition to Echo Park Dam, which would flood most of Dinosaur National Monument, has been led by all of the national conservation organizations of the nation; the protests have come from millions of people of every state, who see their national park system endangered...
Echo Park Dam would ruin the extraordinary canyons in the monument, and it is not necessary in order to provide the desired water and power benefits, since there are alternative methods...
...miles the Colorado cuts across the West, drains 246,000 square miles and-thanks to reclamation projects like Hoover Dam-makes faucets flow and deserts flower. The Interior Department is presently planning to irrigate the vast Upper Colorado Basin with two more great dams. In all, another 15 million acres of the waterless West can be economically reclaimed. The rest may forever remain lunar landscape, like Green River's grotesque canyon and Monument Valley's stark buttes (see color pages...
When completed in 1959, the project will generate more power than TVA. New York and Ontario will share equally in the cost ($600 million) and in the power (12.6 billion kilowatt-hours a year). The dam will fit into the St. Lawrence Seaway system, scheduled for completion...