Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program is that Russia, which has had her shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...when he was Governor of Bombay, Sir George Ambrose Lloyd (later better known as Lord Lloyd, Britain's iron-fisted High Commissioner for Egypt) inaugurated the scheme. Besides two dams which are. respectively, the largest and the second highest in the world, the project includes a network of canals and spillways 6,000 miles long. On it 77,000 men were employed for nine years. It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Delaware together. Statisticians figured that the masonry in the Lloyd dam would build a wall...
...more for the people of northwestern India than anything St. Gandhi has been able to think of, but all its waters could not quench Nationalist pride. India seethed with the news that A. A. Musto, native engineer in charge of construction who spent seven hot summers by the dam site, designed much special machinery, was not rewarded...
...woman's life or protect her health are legal practically everywhere), especially if more reliable contraceptive measures are discovered. (Recommended by the 80 authentic Birth Control clinics in the U. S. as nearest to perfection is the late Dr. James Fryer Cooper's combination of jell & dam. Production cost of the preparations is trifling. But like everything in the U. S. which has to do with sex, the retail cost is high. Clinics charge $1.25 for the dam, 75? for the jell. Drugstores charge $10 for the dam, $1.25 for the jell.) ¶Some...
Construction statistics on the dam ran into dazzling figures, difficult problems. Over 1,500,000 cubic yards of rock were removed from the river and nearby quarries. Eight and one-half miles of railroad track were raised without stopping traffic. Four thousand men were employed at one time in the work. The dam is 92 feet high and with the power house extends more than a mile in length...