Word: dams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly everything else, however, the countries differ widely, and a "bold new venture" that would rescue one would be just as likely to suffocate another. They differ, for instance, in "absorbtive capacity"; foreign capital can build a dam in the Indus River Basin or at Aswan, but if it tries to build a railroad where no one knows how to--or no one wants to--build railroads, a lot of money will go to waste in abortive projects and in the television sets that grace the living rooms of members of the local congresses. The question of allocation of resources...
Expedition! (ABC, 7-7:30 p.m.).* Films show wild-animal rescue operations during the building of the Kariba Dam on Africa's Zambesi River...
...lish for the office of the President himself a council of resource and conservation advisers to survey the whole scope of our natural resources so that we can, as a country, not merely as a basin, develop the resources for 1970 and 1980." When the U.S. builds "a great dam, I don't think the people should pay for irrigation and have the power distributed by a private company." Also promised: a "maximum effort to get fresh water from salt water...
...linking Bahia with Rio, 750 miles to the south, and last week the government let 24 contracts for the $38 million job. Kubitschek also promised to find $3,500,000 to complete one of Magalhaes' cheris'ied projects: long-deferred completion of the 20,000-kw. power dam on the Rio das Contas, which would feed electricity to the southern part of the state (134 of Bahia's 194 counties have no electric power). "We want Bahia always to stay beautiful," says Governor Magalhaes. "We also want people to eat, and children to read and write...
...desperate effort-to reverse this tide. Red China's masters have switched the line to read "plant more and harvest more." are plugging a crash vegetable-growing program. Kiangsi province has ordered 480,000 civil servants to the farm, Shansi province sent 400,000 "retrenched" industrial and dam workers to the countryside, and Kwangtung province promised 1,000,000 laborers who had "blindly immigrated to the cities." To remedy the fertilizer shortage, commune dwellers are being urged to raise pigs for their own profit, following the slogan: "More pigs, more fertilizer; more fertilizer, more grain; more grain, a future...