Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turbogenerators that will eventually produce 800,000 h.p. Water raised by the great concrete wall will make the Dnieper navigable up nearly all of its 1,400 miles. It will irrigate hundreds of thousands of acres. Workmen are hurrying to finish aluminum, steel and machine tool plants at the dam site. Soviet statisticians boast that it will serve a population...
...History. It is a light green jadeite axe-head, a foot long, with a snouted, bawling face on its side. Last week a fifth piece went on exhibition at the American Museum. Found 22 years ago by a U. S. engineer, now dead, during excavation work on a Mexican dam. it was bought and presented to the Museum by Mrs. Payne Whitney, Mrs. Charles Shipman Payson and John Hay ("Jock") Whitney. Similar in workmanship to the axehead, it is called a Tenth Century tiger, representing the god Tezcatlipoca of the little-known Olmec people who once lived in the states...
...Yapoos seriously expect we Yahoos to believe that cancellation favoring Europe at once and ipso facto means trade favoring America? It is an obvious non sequitur. Witness the attitude of our chiefest creditor. Right now at Ottawa she is busy as a beaver in a brook attempting to dam up a billion-dollar trade between dollar-tied neighbors, alienating from us Canadian plants and other acts which if a Yahoo like Andrew Jackson sat in Washington would mean war. Will cancellation revoke Ottawa decrees unfavorable to us? Will it put American wheat on a parity with Canadian in Liverpool...
...Hudson River at a cost of $75,000,000. For joint fee of $5,000 Los Angeles hired Joseph Scott. Hoover nominator at Chicago, and William Gibbs McAdoo, Roosevelt stampeder at Chicago, to wangle a $32.000,000 loan with which to build a power transmission line from Hoover Dam. A Miami citizen sought $12,000,000 to build a highway bridge from the mainland to Key West. New York's crafty Mayor Walker prepared for a grandstand demand for R. F. C. funds to finish his $30,000,000 Tri-Borough Bridge (Manhattan-Queens-Bronx...
Taking a long view, it seemed probable that Reparations and War Debts are already over the dam and that U. S. taxpayers will bear the ultimate burden, to be imposed by cancellation or default as the case may be. This should permit Germany to repay her private debts to foreigners (largely U. S. citizens) both as to principal and interest...