Word: dams
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...Texas Legislature was considering an "emergency" bill to permit divorces after six weeks' residence. For Nevada's boosters, their State's chief asset, after low taxes, is its virginity. After they have talked about its transcontinental rail, plane and bus services; its cheap power from Boulder Dam; its natural resources of gold, silver, copper, zinc and lead, from comparatively old Virginia City, Mountain City, Goldfield and the scattered "ghost towns," to the great open pit mines at Ely and such recent strikes as Jumbo in the northwest; its sheep and cattle; its agricultural industries (alfalfa, turkeys, cantaloupes...
...other, grinding and crunching at a point five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could walk to the face of the glacier. Now so much water is flowing we could not walk along the front." Fear that the glacier might dam the two-mile-wide Delta River, block the Richardson Highway and thus shut off Fairbanks from the outer world was not lively, although "the glacier is estimated to have moved three and one half miles since October...
Emil Ludwig has written 13 biographies. Each of them, winding somehow safe to the last page, made him think of a river. And once a river made him think of the life of man. Then (1924) and there (the great dam at Aswan on the Nile) he decided to write a potamography -the life story of a river. The big job took him a long time, for the Nile covers a lot of ground, has been flowing a long time, has affected many races of men. Last week Potamographer Ludwig's book was ready at last. First readers found...
...water for irrigation, silt for crops. Fertilizing value of the Nile's silt has been assessed at $7.50 an acre. Seventy percent of Egypt's cultivated land yields double or treble harvests; in some places there are seven harvests in 15 months. Could Mussolini starve Egypt by damming Lake Tana, diverting the waters of the Blue Nile from Egypt? No, says Ludwig; only 3% of Egypt's water comes from Lake Tana, none of its precious silt. From immemorial time the Nile's floods have been Egypt's prime worry. Too little water means famine...
Chelan is situated at the outlet of Lake Chelan, about four miles west of Columbia River and about 90 miles (air line) southwest of Grand Coulee Dam, is about 1,200 feet above sea level. The general description your reporter gave of this beautiful eastern Washington pleasure resort and diversified farming district will prove very distasteful to many loyal Washingtonians who are aware of the regal beauties and productive resources abounding in Lake Chelan district (not in "broad Chelan Valley," because there is no valley in the district that has a width of more than 4 miles...