Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...always been the limiting factor to the desert's growth" . . . When federal western reclamation was authorized in 1902, some critics labeled it unnecessary, impractical and visionary ... I heard the same cries of "visionary" and "impractical" when I was on the . .. survey party which fixed the location of Hoover Dam in 1929. The growth and prosperity of the Imperial, Yuma and Coachella Valleys and metropolitan southern California would not have been possible without this dam . . . Now history is repeating itself...
...Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug proposed a high-level (602-ft.) federal dam with initial capacity of 800,000 kilowatts. Idaho Power Co. wanted to build three smaller, privately financed hydroelectric dams (initial capacity: 783,400 kw.) at Oxbow. Brownlee and Hell's Canyon sites, all of which would have been flooded by the Government project...
Last week the Federal Power Commission broke the deadlock. The winner: Idaho Power's three-dam plan...
...prevent future dust bowls. Last week beneath the prairie sun, tractors and dump trucks, concrete mixers and elevation loaders, electric and power shovels and bulldozers bumped and clunked on the project that is the heart of North Dakota's new hope-the second biggest rolled-fill earth dam in the world, across the unpredictable Missouri River at Garrison, N.D. Garrison Dam, a project of the Bureau of Reclamation, the Army Engineers and the state of North Dakota, already stands 200 feet high and 2½ miles long; its 70 million cubic yards of earth and stone exceed...
...continued, barking out the words like parade-ground commands: refugee-act amendments, water resources, the Upper Colorado, Frying Pan and Cougar dam projects, customs simplification, minimum wage, the atomic peace ship, Hawaiian statehood...