Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matched by overtures to the Arabs. Half an hour after the vote, the Bonn government announced resumption of economic talks with Egypt, and added that a team of German engineers had just arrived in Cairo to survey the possibility of building the world's largest power and irrigation dam on the Nile. Vital statistics: a dam. 42 miles long, to cost $286 million and to take 10 to 15 years to build, which would increase Egypt's arable land by 40%, help solve its water problem for 200 years...
...P.U.D.'s are bound to fight. But Robinson, with two victories under his belt, thinks that at long last the tide is turning in favor of private powor in the Northwest. Recently, the Washington legislature passed a bill allowing public and private utilities to buy jointly or build dams to generate power. One such deal already in the making: to build a dam at Priest Rapids on the Columbia River. With power still short in the Northwest, it looks as if there is still plenty of room for private enterprise, thanks to tough-minded Kinsey Robinson...
...keep up with the needs of California's 46 northern counties, where he sells power to half of the 5,500,000 people. He has also had to fight the threat of public power from the great Central Valley Project, which includes Shasta Dam. As part of his grand plan, Black has added ten new power plants, 200,000 miles of new transmission lines, 15,000 additional miles of distribution lines, and a 500-mile pipeline from Arizona that added 300 million cubic feet of natural gas daily to P. G. & E.'s supply of 400 million cubic...
While the public-power-minded Bureau of Reclamation had hoped that municipalities would set up their own systems and buy power from Shasta Dam, P. G. & E. is still Shasta's biggest customer. The company has kept its rates so low that few communities have shown any inclination to go into the electric business...
Almost all privately-owned utilities of the Northwest opposed constructing the Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee projects, contending they would be enormous "white elephants." But the Army engineers built the dam anyway. Industries took root in the Columbia Basin that could not have existed without the new power. Aluminum companies constructed plants in Washington, each ton of their metal requiring electricity enough to burn a sixty-watt light bulb for thirty-eight years. A tremendous lumber industry developed which also gulped large quantities of power...