Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Truth Squad," set out to follow Truman through the same whistle stops and present the Republican rebuttal to his "facts." The Republican vigilance was thoroughly justified; the President was engaged in a no-holds-barred assault on the Republican Party's strongest asset. At Montana's Tiber Dam, Truman pushed down a plunger setting off a dynamite charge. Playfully, he told reporters: "This is what we're going to do to Eisenhower...
This year, after Kansas' billion-dollar flood of 1951 served notice that the Kansas City area might be inundated again & again until the Kansas and its tributaries were controlled, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 to start Tuttle Creek Dams. Embattled Blue Valley residents still hope to block the project's completion, and their warning that "if Tuttle Creek is built, there is a shadow and threat over every fertile valley in the Missouri Basin" has not gone unnoticed in farmhouses that have been marked for condemnation in other river valleys if the "big dam" principle wins...
Pick-Sloan irrigation projects have been attacked as unpractical, uneconomical and unnecessary-and as vigorously defended. In South Dakota, farmers oppose the 250-mile-long storage reservoir planned for the big Oahe Dam across the Missouri near Pierre (pronounced Peer). Some insist that the reservoir's water will never be used for farming because the easily eroded South Dakota soil is not suitable for irrigation...
Early in the Pick-Sloan plan, the Montana Power Co. made a determined but unsuccessful effort to prevent the Bureau of Reclamation from building a power-generating station as part of the Canyon Ferry Dam across the Missouri near Helena. Since then, private power companies in the valley have acclimated themselves to a policy of uneasy coexistence with the Government projects. They have been willing to buy electric power wholesale from the Government, but they have been afraid that the Government might use the reclamation projects as steppingstones to the socialization of the valley's electric utility industry...
Alcoa's plan is to dam the Yukon River deep in Yukon Territory, thus raise the level of several lakes near the border. Alcoa would then tunnel 21 miles through mountains and under the fabled Chilkoot Pass to bring the water down through penstocks to the turbines. The generators would be in the rock itself, protected from the weather and enemy bombs. The power would be cheap enough (probably 2? per Ib. of aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way north and finished aluminum...