Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...emerge with deep conclusions, doesn't always know what level he is at. One of his amusements is to slip through the registry a name for a horse which the registrar will later regret. An example of this was False Front. The registrar did not note that the dam was named Superficial...
...Aluminum Co. of Canada launched its $550 million Kitimat project in British Columbia, the biggest single industrial enterprise in the country. Work moved at a 24-hour-a-day pace on a ten-mile water tunnel through the Rockies, a 280-foot power dam, and the world's biggest aluminum mill to open in 1954. ¶ Iron Ore Co. of Canada got well under way on 360 miles of track through the wilderness of northern Quebec to its $200 million iron ore project in Ungava. ¶ A record $250 million was invested in exploration and development of Alberta...
...gambling, liquor and prostitution, and for lower freight rates for the Northwest, better parks and other projects which helped build up Spokane and the region. In one fiercely fought local campaign, a crank twice tried to dynamite the papers' plant. The Review also battled plans for Grand Coulee dam, but even former Staffer Dyar now admits that the dam brought "a new era of prosperity and growth" to the Northwest. Cowles built a quartet of still thriving tabloid weeklies, the Idaho Farmer, Washington Farmer, Oregon Farmer and Utah Farmer (total circ...
...like him because he speaks Spanish and because his wife is pretty. The O'Dwyers are enormously popular, entertain widely, and get around. He has a nice instinct for handling prideful Mexicans and a politician's feel for public relations. During an inspection trip to the Falcon Dam on the Rio Grande, a joint project of both nations, O'Dwyer said only: "One Falcon Dam is worth 1,000 speeches"-and was quoted all over Mexico. As a broad-minded politician, he gets on well with Mexico's broad-minded politicians. When O'Dwyer...
...Horse project." Fleischmann said he approved the Anaconda-Harvey deal because the plan for an enlarged Air Force (143 wings) made the need for aluminum urgent, and the Anaconda plant should be producing at the rate of 72,000 tons a year by 1953, soon after the Hungry Horse Dam is fully completed. Feischmann could not see any threat of monopoly; the new plant, said he, would produce less than 4% of all U.S. aluminum, tend to increase competition, not reduce...