Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well-run Cincinnati voted nay on municipal ownership for an interesting reason. The citizens there decided against buying Cincinnati Gas & Electric's plant not because they were unsympathetic to public ownership but because they plan to get their electricity from Cove Creek Dam, the Tennessee Valley Authority's proposed power plant on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. The Cincinnati Southern, municipally-owned railway, passes within 10 mi. of the proposed dam-site. Transmission lines could be cheaply strung along the right-of-way into Cincinnati where current would be distributed by a publicly-owned system...
Large allotments of the last month included $14,153,108 to re-employ 8,000 men making a 6-ft. channel in the Missouri River for 387 mi. from Kansas City up to Sioux City; $63,000,000 for a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River at Grand Coulee; $22,700,000 for a reclamation project near Casper, Wyo.; $11,500,000 for dredging a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi...
India. The great Shyok ice dam in Kashmir, which melts so slowly through spring and summer that it backs up a great lake behind it each year, broke, sent a great flood lolloping down the valley of the Indus River...
...first major mishap had come at Roosevelt Dam; a bystander's careless match that burned up his ship. Then he came down at sea, had to be towed for seven days into Fayal. Now came worse. Some say it was the House of Savoy, angered because he dared court Princess Giovanna (today Queen of Bulgaria). Some say it was Italo Balbo, jealous of de Pinedo's acclaim. Some say it was because de Pinedo "forgot" about a half-million-lire fund raised for him by Italo-Americans to buy a new plane. Italo's hero was suddenly...
...score of U. S. citizens led by Newton D. Baker, and including Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, Geologist Charles Kenneth Leith, Col. Hugh (Dnieprostroy Dam) Cooper, Frank Cooke Atherton, Hawaiian tycoon...