Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...island valley are 106,000 peasants, many of whom must still be convinced that President Magloire's favorite project is bon. Within 40 months, Haiti will have one of the world's highest buttress dams wedged in Peligre Canyon, 225 ft. high and 1,075 ft. wide, backing up some 328 million cubic meters of water. This water will flow 60 miles to the smaller intake dam at Canneau, where it will be diverted into canals to irrigate 80,000 acres of their land. Yet many black farmers cannot understand the need for the project. Used to primitive...
...stripped him of dollars and pounds sterling. Naguib's men laid it on the line: they wanted Bonn to advance $600 million in long-term credits repayable in Egyptian cotton. This would be spent to 1) build a new, $300,000,000 hydroelectric irrigation dam that would nearly double Egypt's cultivatable area and multiply its electrical output; 2) construct a 275,000-ton merchant marine; 3) modernize transport and communications; 4) improve ports. They wanted German equipment and technicians...
...plot is generally quite simple. A lean, hardfighting ex-officer and eternal gentleman returns to Old Home Town, Texas. Finding that some dam Yankee carpetbagger has cut him out of his job, girl, homestead, and even his favorite place in the saloon, the Forgotten Hero clenches his teeth and waits. He is still waiting and quietly suffering when the girl-snatching Nawthorn rascal injures either his mother (in pictures apologizing for the James boys) or anyone's honor (in all other films of this genre). Then all hell breaks loose with proud victors vanquished, widows revenged, and Yankee misrule giving...
...Angered by the local P.T.A.'s criticism of the way schools teach the three Rs these days, the sophomore class of Washington's Coulee Dam High School challenged the grown-ups to an old-fashioned spelling bee. Last week, for 20 minutes, the grown-ups did their best, but they missed embarrassment, flubbed efficiency, collapsed on laboratory and paraffin. Final score: victory for the sophomores...
Kansas. Pushing upstream as the Republican flood rolled across Kansas, Democrat Howard S. Miller, 73-year-old farmer-lawyer from Morrill, ousted Republican Representative Albert Cole. The reason: Cole supported the Tuttle Creek Dam (TIME, Sept. 1), part of the Missouri River development program. Many residents of the district oppose the dam because it would require abandonment of many farms. A group of farm wives organized a motorcade and toured the district with Miller under the slogan: "Let's quit this dam foolishness...