Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...various projects, i.e., an amount formally promised for the construction of a specific highway, school or any other project. The second set is disbursements, or money which is actually spent on such construction. Since it may take two, three or more years to build a road or a dam, the" amount of money disbursed often lags far behind commitments...
President Kennedy looked across the flat land toward the Missouri River, its waters imprisoned behind the world's largest rolled earth dam (Oahe: 242 ft. high, 9,300 ft. long). Behind the river rose the brown buttes of South Dakota's cattle country. The President opened his speech to some 9,000 persons with a deeply heartfelt cliche: "I want to express my great pleasure and tell you what a privilege it is to leave Washington these days and come out here." Kennedy had every reason to enjoy being away from Washington: the Democratic Congress was still giving...
...outside; their inbreeding was said to produce malformed children, and to all Spaniards, Las Hurdes became a synonym for decadence. In the region today, riggers are laying a power line across the valley, a hospital is being built, fruit trees grow in the irrigated fields near a power dam...
...total U.S. aid committed since 1952: $660 million). But even such an outpouring of money and technical help may not make "Arab socialism" viable. Population is rising at the rate of more than 500,000 a year, and already it is doubtful whether the huge, Soviet-financed Aswan High Dam irrigation and power project will be enough to meet the country's needs by the time it is due to be finished, around...
...sublets the place had been charging Thant $1,200 a month until the commission sued him for rent gouging and demanded $51,700 triple damages on Thant's behalf. Not at all, protested the landlord. The gouge was on the other side. Thant's cat "tore the dam ask curtains, ripped up the carpets and upholstery," and left him with $6,447 in damages. Thant's aides were skeptical...