Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BIGGEST CONSTRUCTION contract ever awarded to a single company by Interior Department's Bureau of Reclamation is headed towards Louis Wolfson's Merritt-Chapman & Scott for Glen Canyon Dam on Colorado River in Arizona. Company submitted low bid of $108 million for dam, which will be 700 ft. high and 1,400 ft. long, generate...
...make a decision to cancel the offer of aid on the Aswan Dam in order to force a showdown with the Soviet Union in the Middle East...
...reasons which dictated our declining to go ahead with the Aswan proposal. There was, perhaps first of all and most imperative, the fact that the Appropriations Committee of the Senate had unanimously passed a resolution providing that none of the 1957 funds could be used for the Aswan Dam. There was the fact that we had come to the feeling in our own mind that it was very dubious whether a project of this magnitude could be carried through with mutual advantage . . . Then there was the further fact that the Egyptians had . . . been developing ever-closer relations with the Soviet...
...issue in 1955 had been two alternate ways to dam the turbulent Snake River between Idaho and Oregon: 1) a single, high federal dam costing $400 million, which would generate 800,000 kw., or 2) three low, privately built dams costing $190 million, which would generate 783,000 kw. The FPC licensed the Idaho Power Co.'s low-dam plan on grounds that Congress was reluctant to pay for the high dam. Idaho Power promptly went to work on Brownlee Dam, first of its three low dams, even though public power groups went to court to block it. Gambling...
...Climate. But public power proponents are far from giving up. Though Hell's Canyon was lost, they knew that Northwestern industrial and political climates have changed since the FPC ruling in 1955. With no big new dams completed, Northwest economic growth is slowing down. Cheap power from public dams built under the New Deal is now inadequate, and few new industries are moving in. As a result of this-and the Democratic victories in the Northwest last year on a public power platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below...