Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Electric Co. Ltd., designers and manufacturers of the twin-jet Canberra bomber being built under license in the U.S. by Glenn L. Martin Co., landed its second big U.S. hydroelectric contract in a year. The company, which previously won an order for transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, underbid four U.S. firms for two generators for the new Mc-Nary Dam on the Columbia River. The bid: $3,651,476, some $600,000 under that of the nearest U.S. competitor, General Electric...
Changing Designs. The huge earth-moving projects planned by the Japanese should assure the magnanimity of the gods for years to come. The hydroelectric-program called for adding 3,900,000 kilowatts in five years (equal to 36% of Japanese capacity at that time), by building new dams as well as replacing low dams (that become useless when river waters are low) with high dams. The government also has a $1 billion roads program and plans for a new Tokyo reservoir that will require the sixth highest dam in the world and the biggest in the Orient (480 ft. high...
Actually, the P.U.D.s had already drawn up some plans for similar partnership power projects. At Rocky Reach on the Columbia, Washington's Chelan County P.U.D. hopes to build a nine-unit $234,340,000 dam that will produce 600,000 kw. of power. The Grant County P.U.D. has already asked Congress to authorize an even bigger project: an estimated $400 million dam at the Columbia's Priest Rapids that will produce...
...more heed to the U.N. and to Western wishes than his rambunctious predecessor. For Sharett believes in the give & take of negotiation, while B-G believed more in the power of a fait accompli. The two clashed violently over Israel's defiance of the U.N. on the Jordan dam project, and over the Kibya massacre...
...current crisis, the State Department suspects that Israel's controversial dam is a bargaining weapon in Israel's covetous designs on the waters of the Jordan River-at the expense of Arab neighbors. U.S. policy has tried to head off this crisis by backing a TVA-like development of the Jordan valley for the benefit of both Jews and Arabs. Last week suave Eric Johnston, onetime child prodigy of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and currently the president of the Motion Picture Association, was going from capital to capital in the Middle East as Eisenhower's personal...