Word: dams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dam. The state of Washington, through apathy, ignorance and sympathy, found itself stuck with a welfare system that was even gaudier than California's Proposition 4. One out of every twelve persons in the state would get financial assistance for two years and the other eleven would pay almost as much to keep them as the Government spent building Grand Coulee Dam. Unless it instituted a sizable new tax program, the state was almost certain to go into...
...forgotten corner." In charge of the job was a corps of young (average age: 30) Brazilian engineers of the Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco. In the ten months since work began, CHESF has put up a city for 4,500, made a start on a 2-2-mile dam, and is getting ready to carve a huge subterranean power station in solid granite...
...after World War II, Whitney itself began to show alarming signs of going modern. Young soldiers came home, got into politics and began to run the town. They put through bond issues for new water and sewer systems, for paving and lighting the streets. Construction of the vast Whitney Dam began on the nearby Brazos River and new people thronged in. A hundred new houses were built...
...Horsemen had looked him over in the paddock with care and admiration. He was a full brother of Assault, who won the Triple Crown for King Ranch and Trainer Max Hirsch in 1946, and a son of Bold Venture, who won the Derby and Preakness in 1936. On his dam's side, he was descended from the great Equipoise...
...WOOD Beaver Dam...