Word: dams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...They witnessed a terror in France (see p. 24). They got a new campaign in Iran (see below). As had been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked a good war (see p. 12), and Winston Churchill declared...
...Bucharest and Stockholm, it was reported that the great $110,000,000, 140-foot Dnieper Dam near Zaporozhe had been blown up by the retreating Russians. The step would be logical, since the highway atop the dam was one of the best bridges across the river, and since the flood below would reinforce the river as a scarp against the Nazis...
...other hand the great Dnieper Dam may have been destroyed (see p. 10) and various Russian cities had already been reported ruined by Russian hands. The retreat had been slow enough to make possible some industrial destruction (factories cannot be destroyed by the hasty heaving of dynamite sticks). Last week Berlin's radio Propagandist Lord Haw-Haw acknowledged an earth-scorching holocaust in the Western Ukraine, gave a clue to the reason for Stalin's reestablishment of political commissars in the Red Army (TIME, July...
...plants will be in Massena, N.Y., the Bonneville Dam region, somewhere in Arkansas. In Arkansas Alcoa will also build a plant to produce 400,000,000 lb. a year of alumina (intermediate step between bauxite ore and the finished metal). The plants (cost: $52,000,000) will be operated by Alcoa under a five-year lease. For its managerial services, Alcoa will get a meager 15% of the profits, the Government the rest...
...democratic living. Introduced in the U.S. by the American Friends Service Committee (1934), they are still run by private groups. The Friends now have 16, the Student Service five. They build schools, parks, playgrounds, cooperative houses, community centers. In Grafton, N.H., Student Service campers last month rebuilt a dam and reclaimed 500 acres of farm land...