Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weather Bureau, Under Secretary Searles is a cautious believer in the possibilities of man-made rain. In 1948, when he was president of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association in Arizona, he used cloud-seeding, then almost untested, to increase the rainfall on the watershed above Roosevelt Dam. He believes the experiments produced 12,000 extra acre-feet of water, a welcome addition in drought-plagued Arizona...
...Three withheld supplies to independent fabricators. First of all, he would need cheap electric power. It was scarce, but Harvey seemed to have no trouble finding it. He persuaded the Interior Department's Bonneville Power Administration to assign him 111,500 kilowatts from the new Hungry Horse Dam being built near Kalispell, Mont. To use the power, Harvey needed electric rectifiers. From War Surplus Boss Jess Larson, Harvey bought enough for a complete "pot-line" (i.e., enough to make 35 million Ibs. of aluminum a year). After that, all Harvey needed to make aluminum was i) a plant...
Ever since Bedford went to work for Henry Kaiser, right out of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, he has been tackling tough jobs. At 26, he was put in charge of a $20 million job on Cuba's Central Highway. Bedford then straw-bossed the building of Bonneville Dam, a project made so hazardous by the swift Columbia River that no bonding company would have anything to do with it. After doing the same job at Grand Coulee Dam, in 1940, he was made boss of Kaiser's four West Coast shipyards, even though he had never seen a ship...
...field was narrowed to one enthusiast. He was Leo M. Harvey, a shrewd Californian who had built up an $8,500,000 aluminum extrusion business, Harvey Machine Co., and already had sewed up a supply of cheap power, the prime essential for aluminum, at Montana's Hungry Horse Dam. Interior agreed that if Harvey could raise $7,000,000, it would approve a $46 million loan for him. When Harvey raised only $3,500,000 and promised to raise the rest by selling stock, Interior asked DPA to make the loan anyway. But last week DPA, in a quandary...
Under the Bully Choops. The Klamath does not look like much on a map, but its annual flow is 10 million acre-feet, about equal to one of the poorer years of the Colorado. According to one plan, an 813-ft. dam at Ah Pah, near the mouth of the Klamath, will back it far up its southern tributary, the Trinity. A tunnel 60 miles long under the Bully Choop Mountains will export 6,000,000 acre-feet into the Sacramento. After getting a boost from a battery of pumps, the water will follow a canal to Bakersfield. Then another...