Word: dams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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About May 1, after a month back at his desk in the White House, the President will begin a slow trip westward to dedicate a new dynamo at Washington's Grand Coulee Dam. Officially, the trip will be billed as "nonpolitical," an ancient device whereby a President can pay his expenses from his $40,000-a-year travel allowance instead of from the party treasury. He will deliver the Democratic line as the presidential train winds through Maryland, where Millard Tydings is gunning for re-election to the Senate; Pennsylvania, where Democratic Senate Whip Francis Myers faces a stiff...
...Dam Improvement...
...which the Houses were built is filled-in swamp-land that used to flood at high tide. Even after the new living quarters were finished, exceptionally high tides would inundate the area. The situation was not improved until the course of the Charles River was altered and a dam built at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
...moments last week, the two nations agreed to embark on the biggest international hydroelectric power project in history. When completed, the power of Niagara Falls, much of it now wasted, will be almost completely harnessed to supply both countries with nearly six times as much energy as huge Hoover Dam generates; none of Niagara's scenic beauty will be spoiled...
...Canada has a similar project. The two nations would share the cost of a $31 million dam, just north of Lake Erie's outlet, to control the flow into the Niagara River...