Word: dams
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Throughout these destitute lands, the French have made isolated but highly promising efforts at development. In the French Sudan, the TVA-like Office du Niger, located in a tree-shaded and prosperous town that was once just a cluster of huts, has built a $21 million dam across the Niger River, on top of which lie the tracks for the still nonexistent Trans-Saharan Railroad (the railroad station is currently being used as an office building). The Office has reclaimed more than 108,000 acres of desert where cotton and rice can now grow, hopes eventually to have...
...Nationalized Suez Canal Co., following the U.S. withdrawal of its offer to help build $1.3 billion Aswan dam ("Americans, may you choke on your fury"). Then his armies were badly beaten by the invading British, French and Israelis...
WHILE a sharp summer thunderstorm crackled across the St. Lawrence Valley, crowds of raincoated tourists scrambled to the crest of a high dirt dike near Cornwall. Ont. one morning last week and peered through the mist toward a stubby earthen dam 2½miles away. At 7:55 a warning rocket arched overhead, and a voice on a loudspeaker began a countdown. An engineer in a timbered bunker pressed a button; from the explosive-mined dam a yellow curtain of debris belched upward toward the thunderheads. Deliberately, the blasted dam crumbled, and muddy water poured through, first in a thick...
...confederation, the big neighbors of North America thunderously marked completion of the major works in the building of the St. Lawrence Seaway and Power Project (see color pages). For three days the unstopped waters of the St. Lawrence rushed into the basin above the international St. Lawrence Power Dam, and on July 4, Independence Day for Canada's U.S. partner in the project, the newborn lake reached its predicted shore line. Turbines in the power dam turned in test runs, and the U.S. Coast Guard buoy tender Maple voyaged through the new lake, planting a trail...
...eastern end of the International Rapids, where the brawling river forms the boundary between Ontario and New York, two new dams went up-the dams that last week drowned the old rapids under a navigable lake 28 miles long and up to four miles wide. One was the St. Lawrence Power Dam. The other, the Long Sault (pronounced soo) Spillway Dam, stands across the old main river bed to divert water to the power dam and a bypass ship channel...