Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even more compelling reason not to cut back economic aid now. Today, the Soviet leaders arrive in New Delhi to tempt the Indians into accepting increased Soviet technical aid. Already, the Soviets have offered to India funds and technicians for a steel mill, to Egypt funds for a giant dam, and to Lebanon million of dollars for a river development project. These projects may be minute when compared to the U.S. aid that has flowed into Asia and the Middle East, but the start of a Soviet technical aid program poses a threat to the free world that must...
...Reds have worked hardest. Hungary is shipping the Egyptians between 50 and 90 locomotives and freight cars to go with them; Russian tankers have delivered the first of some 500,000 tons of Rumanian and Russian oil. The Kremlin has even offered to help build the giant new Aswan dam, which Premier Abdel Nasser believes his country must have or starve (Nasser has already signed up an English engineering firm to design the dam, but so far has been unable to get money out of the World Bank to build...
...easiest ways to start an argument in the U.S. is to propose damming a river. Last week the fights over two big dam projects which have been through long controversies were settled...
...Governors. Senators and Representatives of four Western states voted to drop the controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado's northwest corner. The four-state group now plans to push four other dams in a bill to be introduced in Congress next session...
...flashed the green light for construction of the Priest Rapids and Wanapum Dams on the Columbia River. They will be built by the Grant County (Wash.) Public Utility District, which had to fight objections of the state power commission before it could take on the job. The P.U.D. will share the $361 million cost of the Priest River Dam with the Federal Government, making the dam the first under President Eisenhower's public-private "partnership" policy...