Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dulles. Candidate Riegelman, with an eye on New York's powerful Jewish vote, wanted to talk to Dulles about the U.S.'s cancellation of economic aid to Israel, which came after Israel had defied the order of the United Nations truce commission to stop work on a dam in a demilitarized zone on the Syrian border. Riegelman stayed with Dulles for an hour and a half, then appeared in the State Department lobby with a carefully typed statement initialed by Dulles' personal assistant. He was confident, said the candidate, that the Israel dispute would soon be solved...
Next day, back in Riegelman's Manhattan, Israel promised the United Nations Security Council that she would stop work on the Jordan dam while the Security Council debated the case. The offer was much like one which the U.N. truce commissioner had rejected as unsatisfactory two weeks before. Nonetheless, on the strength of the stop-work order, President Eisenhower announced at his press conference that "we can proceed with our arrangement for the economic help of Israel." A few hours later, Dulles approved the reinstatement of a $26 million allotment to Israel for the six months ending at year...
...deal of which has already taken place. Power output, which fell 150,000 kw. short of contracted demand last year, should be enough this year to meet all contracts, with some to spare. Still other additions are well under way, including such major hydroelectric sources as the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, scheduled for power production...
...even these will be inadequate to satisfy the expanding Northwest. McKay would like to see the private power companies expand to meet the demand. As added encouragement, he is considering a 15% rate boost for Bonneville Dam power to cover increased costs, thus bringing Government prices closer to private power costs...
...Texas and a quiet weekend at the 15,000-acre ranch of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. This week he continued his southward journey into Mexico. Crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo, he met Mexico's President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched a fiesta in the dam-born village of Nuevo Guerrero, and toasted their...