Word: dams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...secretary of P.B.H., and his wife will be directors of the group of from 25 to 30 college men and women who propose to study the problems of a typical small town at the same time that they help reclaim 500 acres of flooded community land by building a dam...
...seven weeks between June 27 and August 15, 18 to 20 college men, including a maximum of 15 from Harvard, will reconstruct a dam which was washed out fourteen years ago, causing considerable crop damage since then by allowing annual floods to prevent planting...
Dynamic Engineer Kaiser does not recognize nature's other obstacles any more than he kowtows to time. He has headed companies which helped build the Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), the Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...
...Uruguay $7,500,000, part to finish a power dam on the Negro River started five years ago with German capital, the rest to improve the beef and wool indus tries. Since Great Britain has already bought all Uruguay's 1941 wool clip, the Uruguayan loan is indirect aid to Britain...
...England. Chimneys tumbled, dishes and canned goods fell from shelves, walls cracked, furniture slid. In Milton, Mass, a woman telephoned to police to find out whether the Navy ammunition depot at Hingham had blown up. In White Plains, N. Y. a filling-station attendant yelled that the Kensico dam had burst. In South Portland, Me. a woman got dizzy, fell down, hurt her head. In Manhattan's Harlem a man fell...