Word: damming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cleaning up the Ukraine is no afternoon tea party. It comprises an area bigger than Italy, and about one-sixth of Russia's peoples live there. But Adolf Hitler must have it, must grasp its steelworks, its great Dnieper dam, its rich black dirt which pushes up abundance and covers coal and iron...
These links will provide 200,000 more kw. (for example, by bringing Florida's current excess power to needy Georgia)-about equal to the current capacity of giant Wilson Dam, but a mere stopgap in relation to the South's increasing needs. FPC says these links can be built in six months; others say material shortages may mean it will take two years. OPM indicated that priorities would be granted wherever needed. An eighth interconnection-between TVA and Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.-was "recommended" (FPC is wary of "ordering" another independent Government agency to do anything...
...after Calvin Coolidge signed the bill authorizing Boulder Dam in 1928, eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...
...made the East's dry weather most irritating to farmers was that on the other side of the Mississippi, from Kansas to the Pacific, rainfall had averaged anywhere from 11% to 133% above normal. There had been floods in California, Arizona, New Mexico. In Lake Mead, above Boulder Dam, was stored enough water to provide every inhabitant of the U.S. with 67,000 gallons, supply New York City for nearly 27 years...
...list of students with whom "Charlie" was acquainted reads like a Who's Who. Franklin Roosevelt, for instance, and "all his dam kids." Then there is Leverett Saltonstall, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Benchley, Arthur Holcombe, Joe Kennedy, Archy Davison, and "Jim" Conant...