Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work in the oilfields, he irrigated his crops; on hot summer nights he would lie down to sleep at the end of an irrigation furrow in his alfalfa field, and when the water got far enough down the furrow to lap at his body, he would jump up, dam the wet ditch and open the next furrow...
BIGGEST BOND ISSUE for a public utility in history of Pacific Northwest is making splash on Wall Street. The $250 million issue, floated by 140-firm investment syndicate for Washington's 775,000 kw. Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River, was oversubscribed in advance despite tight money...
...technical assistance. In South Viet Nam's capital of Saigon, Kishi's reception was formal and cool. Saigon's politicians were miffed because 1) they hoped that Kishi would offer $150 million in reparations and help build a major dam for them, and he said not a word about it; 2) President Ngo Dinh Diem sees himself, not Kishi, as the spokesman of non-Communist Asia...
...hope for 10 million-far short of enough to keep pace with India's 5,000,000 yearly births. Power and electricalequipment projects have been dropped. To save foreign exchange, the government has slapped strict import controls on luxury goods. Despite these measures, the huge Rihand hydroelectric dam in Uttar Pradesh stands useless for lack of $8,000,000 to buy electric generators...
AFRICAN INDUSTRIALIZATION will be speeded by $3 billion Inga hydroelectric project, the world's biggest, to start building soon near mouth of the Congo River. Complex of dams and power stations will generate 200 billion kw-h a year-about twelve times the output of Grand Coulee Dam -for power-short central Africa. Belgium figures project will attract $15 billion to $20 billion in Congo industrial investment...