Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tents. "I stole coal from Northern Pacific railroad cars, and we ate plenty of stale bread with that old purple mold coming through," recalls Egbert. He went to Washington State on an athletic scholarship (state discus-throw record in 1937), but dropped out to work on the Grand Coulee Dam to support his family...
...African conference pointed up Nasser's curious dilemma today. Only 43, still the idol of Arab masses wherever he goes, he is a man with his ambitions unsated, a fading hero in search of a solid triumph. At home, his record is at best mixed. The Aswan Dam is under construction; Egypt's staple product, cotton, was bought up on world markets in record quantities last year. Russia has provided $170 million for industrial development, as well as $377 million for the dam (v. the U.S.'s $120 million). The Suez Canal is doing better business than...
Another plan that should be under way soon is a blue-sky dream of William Zeckendorf's Webb & Knapp Inc.-made practical by cheap power from Bonneville Dam and Stratmat's smelting process-to retrieve iron, copper and zinc from waste copper slag cast off by copper companies. A Webb & Knapp subsidiary, in which Stratmat is to have a minority interest, plans to build a mill in Montana and buy slag from Anaconda Co. at 25? a ton. The slag heap contains iron, copper and zinc ores worth an estimated $1.4 billion. Zeckendorf even hopes to sell...
When the great Kariba Dam on the Zambesi River was finished in 1959, every prospect about it was pleasing. Besides generating 1,500,000 kilowatts of power, the dam would create a lake 175 miles long where protein-starved black Rhodesians could catch fish and white Rhodesians could swim and sail. But Kariba Lake had hardly begun to fill with water when a vicious enemy showed its deceptively pretty face. A delicate, floating water fern named Salvinia auriculata appeared in patches that spread with astonishing speed. By last week dense mats, some of them strong enough to support...
...output in the world is planned by Administration for Government plant at Hanford, Wash. Under Eisenhower, Congress authorized $145 million to build the plant to produce plutonium. Kennedy will ask for an extra $95 million to expand the plant to produce 700,000 kilowatts of electricity, more than Bonneville Dam, may sell it through dam authority...