Word: dam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Land of the Big Blue River in this issue is such a story. Grand Coulee Dam has been abuilding for 17 years, and TIME has reported on it from time to time. "Now Grand Coulee and the whole Columbia River power system have begun to change the face of the Northwest, and the editors thought that this was the proper time to show you its new face - in words, pictures and map. It takes time and space to tell this story, and that is what the special section provides. It is for the news of the times rather than...
Abrim with amiability and the verbiage for threescore political speeches, the President was off on a 16-state, 6,400-mile tour. Officially he was going to dedicate Washington's Grand Coulee Dam; actually, he had taken to the hustings and the back platform once more to lay fire on the Republicans, resell his Fair Deal and solicit votes for the Democrats in 1950's off-year congressional elections. Traveling with all the trappings of campaign time (including Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret, 19 White House aides, 57 newsmen), the President quickly fell into the relaxed, chatty mood...
...years as a nation, the U.S. has produced few such spectacles as the colossal birth throes of the Grand Coulee Dam. Its grey and gargantuan bulk was eight years (1933-41) abuilding, and in that time armies of sightseers wended their way into a scarred and desolate canyon of the Columbia River, 150 airline miles east of Seattle, to goggle at the horrid obstetrics...
...starred as Lord Lancashire's agent in charge of buying out the landowners of the village. In all three capacities he has performed sensitively and perhaps even poetically for three-quarters of the picture. His conclusion, however, in which an almost saintly village matron releases the floodgates of a dam to inundate her beloved Dolwyn, seems incredibly out of keeping with the rest of the picture. The matron, nevertheless, is almost always a believable and winning person, played with great tenderness by Dame Edith Evans...
...Georgi Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...