Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resisted solution, the taming of the Nile. Nasser called in a trusted engineer, who said, "The man's crazy." "That may be," Egypt's new young boss replied, "but don't come back until you're sure." The crazy idea was to build a dam barely 300 feet high which would back up the Nile's waters for 400 miles...
Since the Nile drops an average of only six inches per mile, Nasser's not-so-crazy visitor saw that one big dam would do much to meet the nation's needs...
...Aswan Dam (see map) would create the world's largest man-made lake, three times as long as Hoover Dam's Lake Mead and with a capacity of 105 million acre-feet of water. It would multiply Egypt's electric-power supply eightfold and irrigate 2,000,000 new acres, expanding Egypt's farmland by 30% and the national income by 25%. At $1.3 billion for the dam and irrigation works, the cost, reckoned at $650 per acre of new irrigated land, is a bargain by comparison with some projects in the U.S. West...
Carefully sifting the evidence he had against Clauberg, Van Dam decided that murder might be hard to prove, and he wanted to be sure. Van Dam, a lawyer, finally addressed a letter to the public prosecutor at Kiel, charging only that Clauberg had "caused severe bodily harm" to Jewish women at Auschwitz, backed his charge with sworn statements from more than 30 sterilized women who had survived Clauberg's experiments. He also cited a letter in which Clauberg boasted to Gestapo Chief Himmler that "my method of achieving sterilization of the female organs has been developed more or less...
...Ohio's Denison University, and Ted immediately enrolled at Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, where his father had studied. His first call was to the Cleveland Heights Baptist Church, and within a year 26-year-old Pastor Adams had married Esther Josephine Jillson, a small, energetic girl from Beaver Dam, Wis. Three years later, he moved to Toledo, where the delegation from Richmond found...