Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...occasion of their talks, the Presidents picked the dedication of Falcon Dam, 75 miles down the Rio Grande from Laredo, Texas. A joint U.S.-Mexican project, Falcon is being built to ease the lower Rio Grande valley's crying water shortage (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ike and Don Adolfo will doubtless stress that it is a foursquare piece of international cooperation: the nations pay for it in proportion to the benefits in power and irrigation that it will give each (58.6% for the U.S., 41.4% for Mexico). The Presidents can also marvel at the dam's size...
...Street Club one evening last week, Mrs. Karl Mundt was seated next to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. He asked after Senator Mundt, who was attending a night session of the Senate. Mrs. Mundt said the Senator (up for election next year) was downcast because of the Oahe Dam. Summerfield politely asked about the dam, and Mrs. Mundt rattled off the facts & figures. A $14 million appropriation for the South Dakota dam had been dropped from the 1954 budget, she told Summerfield, and it was a pity. After all, $16 million had already been expended on the dam, and to cancel...
...contract awarded by the Army to Britain's Ferranti Ltd., low bidder on six transformers to be installed at the McNary Dam on the Columbia River. Closest U.S. offer...
...first map-Annapolis to Point Lookout-rolled off the press. Maryland fishermen bought 5,000 copies within a few weeks. The staff of Sportsmen's Guides continued to collect information, but they ranged farther. Next spring they were ready with The Chesapeake Bay Area, from Conowingo Dam to Annapolis. They they covered The New Jersey Coast, from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Light. Last year they printed their fourth map, The Atlantic Coast, from Cape May, N.J. to Chincoteague Is., Va., and they revised their first...
...answer to man's dwindling reserves of coal and fuel oil. In an ideal nuclear power plant, says Dr. Chauncey Starr, North American's director of atomic research, 10 lbs. of fissionable material a day could produce electric power equal to the ultimate capacity of Hoover Dam...