Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hydrogen bomb tests, he told the House of Commons, "increase the chances of world peace more than the chances of war." In one of his most moving performances, the soon-to-retire, old (79) Prime Minister stepped forward to dam a flood of justified concern and political alarm which had hit Britain in the wake of the U.S. thermonuclear experiments...
...During the week he pressed, as all Presidents must, a couple of ceremonial buttons: one. on the Republican Party's 100th birthday, that lighted up an "eternal flame" at the little schoolhouse in Ripon. Wis. where the G.O.P. was born; the other activated the big new Fort Randall Dam on the Upper Missouri River (see BUSINESS...
Between 0200 and 0500 the Communists launch five "human sea" assaults against Gabrielle, but Gabrielle's 600 Algerians damn and dam them. "I am full of confidence in the victorious issue of this battle," De Castries reports to Hanoi, "because of the morale of the troops." At 0900, the Communists ask for a three-hour truce so both sides may pick up their wounded. The doctors work desperately with their amputation knives while chaplains intone prayers for the dead. At 1200, the truce ends. Some 1,000 French reinforcements from Hanoi parachute into Dienbienphu. But the weather...
...Fort Randall Dam near Pickstown, S. Dak. is the first of four big Missouri River projects to produce power in the Pick-Sloan development plan for the power-hungry Missouri Valley (TIME, Sept. 1, 1952). Almost two miles long and 160 ft. high, the dam was started in 1946, will have cost nearly $200 million by the time its last unit goes into operation in 1956. In addition to its ultimate power capacity of 320,000 kw., enough to light a city of 500,000, Fort Randall may well serve an immediate purpose of another nature. By impounding high waters...
...authorizing a deal between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Eugene, Ore. (pop. 36,000) to build a $34.5 million power and flood-control project on the state's McKenzie River. For its share, the Government plans to build a $23 million flood-control dam on the McKenzie. In turn, Eugene's city-owned power company will spend $10.5 million on a powerhouse at the dam site and a smaller reregulating dam downstream, will also put up $1,000,000 towards the cost of the Government's dam...