Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under floodwater last week lay large parts of the Colorado River valley around Austin, Tex. Mightily displeased were scores of washed-out farmers who turned up at the capital, demanded to know what had happened to the Lower Colorado River Authority's four-dam flood control and power project, engineered by the Federal Bureau of Reclamation with $15,000,000 of PWTA funds. Mightily pleased, on the other hand, was Price Campbell, publicity-wise president of West Texas Utilities Co. which stands to lose a 200-mile circle of its power customers to the Authority. President Campbell thought...
...Each State has baffling local problems. Example: In Washington, regulations against the transfer of teachers from county to county prevent 5,000 workers at Grand Coulee Dam from having classes for which they have petitioned...
...undertake pump-priming when the Government cut down. Certainly no private industry primed the pump less than the utilities; they had held up capital expenditures since the start of the New Deal's public-ownership and "death-sentence" deals (see below). Utility officers, in turn, explain the estimated dam of $3,000,000,000 in such expenditures on grounds that they and the investing public are too scared by the Government's power policy to put more money into the business...
First Ship Through Bonneville Dam (Sat. 1 p.m. CBS) passes through locks to open The Dalles, Ore. to ocean commerce...
More than a year ago Ford workmen appeared in Milan, began throwing a dam across the Saline, turning the Milan Garage and an old grist mill into a factory to manufacture ignition coils and to process soybeans for plastics. Into the factory, shaded by trees on the bank of the little lake made by the dam, last week went 30 Milan villagers. It will give employment eventually to some 30 more. They will spend their spare time on their farms growing their own food. They will work with cheap water power and they are expected to work more quickly, more...