Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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¶ The House Interior Committee voted down, by a narrow 16 to 14, Idaho Congresswoman Gracie Pfost's bill to build a federal high dam in Hells Canyon. The Senate had already approved such a dam on the same Snake River stretch where the Idaho Power Co. is building...
Public-power and private-power advocates have quarreled and quibbled for a decade over whether the Federal Government should 1) build a power dam in mile-deep Hells Canyon on the Northwest's Snake River, or 2) let the privately owned Idaho Power Co. do the job. The issue...
Since 1950, with the help of foreign experts (a U.S. and a British economist are full members of the board), Iraq's unique agency has built, started or planned 16 dams between the snow-veined mountains of Kurdistan and the steaming shores of the Persian Gulf. It has completed...
Purging the Planners. The Development Board has made its share of mistakes. It failed to train enough people to staff the new schools, hospitals, factories. From a political point of view, it was too slow to add what experts call "impact" projects, i.e., works that hungry, impoverished Iraqis can see...
STOCK TIP-OFF is stirring more trouble in Washington, this time over Office of Defense Mobilization's decision to award Idaho Power Co. a fast tax write-off for Hells Canyon dams (TIME, April 15). Senator Estes Kefauver's antimonopoly subcommittee is investigating to find out why trading...