Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Thus last week Iran's huge, $67.2 million "Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi Dam." highest in the Middle East* went into operation as another feather in the crown of the country's 43-year-old reform-minded monarch. To help finance the dam. the World Bank loaned Iran $42 million, but the rest of the cash came from the Shah's $300 million annual oil revenues. To oversee the project. Iran picked two ex-chairmen of the U.S.'s Tennessee Valley Authority. David E. Lilienthal and Gordon R. Clapp, who now head a Manhattan-based consulting firm...
...dam's principal purpose is to bring fertility back to desolate Khuzistan province, an area the size of Michigan in southwest Iran, near the Persian Gulf.Twenty-five centuries ago. Khuzistan was the fabled fertile granary of the ancient Persian empire. But the region has since eroded into a virtual wasteland; the last major reclamation attempt was a system of irrigation canals dug by King Shapur II in 300 A.D. The new dam will water 360.000 acres, and provide electricity even for the province's remotest villages and five cities, including the oil-refining center of Abadan. opening...
...Rising 647 ft., it will top Egypt's still-abuilding Aswan High Dam...
...Rains Dust." At the Lazaro Cardenas irrigation dam, the waters barely touch the base of the wall. The dam holds only one-eighth of its 3.2-billion-cu.-meter capacity. For the first time since the dam was completed in the 1940s, no water will be available this year to irrigate the newly seeded cotton fields below. It has not rained at all this year, and in 1962 only six inches of rain fell, the lowest record in memory. "In La Laguna," goes the expression, "it doesn't rain water, it rains dust." Last month, 30 blue-painted trucks...
...visible sign that the time bomb has been triggered, whether at four or 40. may be jaundice. But more threatening is the brain damage: tremor, loss of control over physical movements, and personality changes. In young victims mental retardation is obvious. In adolescents and adults the effects of brain dam age are often mistaken for a variety of mental illnesses, including schizophrenia...