Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berserk Feather. Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
...does. "Goa?" he said. "That's a Portuguese province." And, of course that made things just hunky-dory with you because you could say some nice things about Kashmir and come off top dog after all. pinch and you got a nice fat contract to build those Burmese a dam. That was a fine present, wasn...
Wherever he could make a deal-in E.ast and West Germany, in France and Red China-the Premier has been peddling cotton in exchange for trucks, bulldozers and generators needed for the dam...
...Egypt still had to find more than $400 million in foreign exchange. For two years, the World Bank mulled over Nasser's request for a loan. It wanted guarantees that the dam was feasible, that Egyptian finance was stable, and that there would be no graft. Not until Russia recently charged forward with an offer of $300 million for the Aswan Dam did things begin to stir in Washington. The U.S. decided at last to underwrite the Egyptian investment...
Last week the World Bank was polishing the fine print in the terms for a $200 million loan, and the U.S. State Department steeled itself to ask Congress for perhaps $200 million more, spread out over the ten years that the dam will take to build. With hopes for another loan from Britain, Premier Nasser can afford to turn down the Russian offer and still stop up the Nile with a mighty wall, not of concrete but of granite blocks, just like the ones that pyramids were made...