Word: damming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bemused counselor of the Soviet embassy, Viktor Isakov, appeared at the office of Montana Senator Mike Mansfield. "We are puzzled by this request," he said. "Could you please explain?" Mansfield's staff declared that nothing could be done until the citizens asked for a new dam and raised their property taxes to provide flood control. After hearing Isakov's report, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin decided against intervention...
Between 1935 and 1943, the WPA built or improved enough roads to girdle the globe 24 times, enough bridges to connect New Orleans with Havana, plus 125,110 public buildings, 8,192 parks and 853 airports. The WPA companion agency, the Public Works Administration, gave posterity Hoover Dam, Chicago's sewer system and the aircraft carriers Yorktown and Enterprise. In all, the two agencies disbursed $9.8 billion...
Ruckelshaus has not hesitated to dispute other federal agencies' plans when they concern the environment. EPA opposed one of the Bureau of Reclamation's dam-building projects, the Interior Department's tentative approval of the trans-Alaska pipeline and, reportedly, the Atomic Energy Commission's nuclear test at Amchitka. As a result of such actions, Ruckelshaus has been called "the loneliest man in Washington." He shrugs:'"In a job like this, you're bound to ruffle some feathers...
...together by their fears about Soviet intentions. Officials of both countries are in almost continual consultation. This week Yugoslav President Tito will meet with Rumanian President and Communist Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu on the Rumanian-Yugoslav border, not far from where the two countries are jointly building a huge dam at the Danube's so-called Iron Gate rapids. On its completion next summer, the dam, which will be capable of producing more electricity than Egypt's Aswan, will power new industrial plants in the two countries...
...report, entitled "Damning of the West," said that the Bureau's activities are more than just obsolete. Among the environmental damages catalogued are the despoliation of the Snake River area in Idaho, extensive pollution of the Colorado River, and a recent attempt by the Bureau to dam up the Grand Canyon...