Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maryland's debonair Democrat Tydings helped out Ohio's Taft by picturing the Gilbertsville dam as a flood-control project superimposed upon a power project, but Tennessee's McKellar, TVA's Nebraska father, Senator Norris, and Majority Leader Barkley were too much for them. By wide margins the Senate voted the money for Watts Bar and Gilbertsville...
...produced 44 billion kilowatt-hours of hydroelectricity in 1938. Potential maximum of all practicable waterpower sites has been estimated around 325 billion kwh. Though completion of the New Deal's dam program will not harness all this, experts foresee a big surplus over municipal and irrigation power needs. They also claim they know how to mop it up-build electrochemical factories near damsites, with hungry electricity-eaters like furnaces to produce calcium carbide (from limestone and coal electrically heated to 4,000° F.), acetylene, alcohol, acetone, fertilizers, insecticides, plastics. One modern, three-electrode calcium carbide furnace requires...
...railbirds had underestimated a plain brown filly, Congressman Richard Kleberg's Ciencia (Spanish for Science, her dam's name), who was bred on the vast open spaces of his family's famed King Ranch,** Coming into the stretch, Ciencia, who had been trailing like a dogie up to the half-mile pole, suddenly rushed up,*** swept past the leaders, Porter's Mite and Bessie Franzheim's Xalapa Clown. When the dust had settled, 50,000 gasping spectators realized that a filly had won the Santa Anita Derby for the first time...
...Colorado River's Boulder Dam has six giant generators which turn out 82.500 kilowatts each. Among hydroelectric turbine machines, these hold a record for power. But Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. pointed out last week that "records don't last long among water wheels." The company has started work on three generators rated at 108,000 kilowatts apiece...
These are for Washington's Grand Coulee, biggest engineering enterprise in history, and will get into action in 1941. They will weigh 960 tons each, measure 48.5 ft. across as against the Boulder Dam generators...