Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Offer from Moscow, Russia, he said, would be glad to extend a generous loan for Libya's development, with no strings attached, would send specialized engineers to build whatever Libyans wanted-hospitals, schools, harbors, dams. Prime Minister Ben Halim hustled over to U.S. Ambassador John Tappin and told him...
Maass noted that "we have built bigger and better dams, canals, and aqueducts--longer and stronger electric lines."
Many of you will remember, I'm sure, our color pictures of this great river (TIME, Aug. 23, 1954), and the map (see cut) and detailed report on the river projects which we published in the Jan. 31 issue last year. People were talking about these Colorado River projects...
Positive action came the next day: the House, by a surprising 256-to-136 vote, passed the Upper Colorado bill. It authorized spending $756 million on four major dams and on participating projects that would irrigate 132,000 acres of new land and supply additional water to 230,000 acres...
One such plan that deserves U.S. support is a proposed Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development--appropriately labelled SUNFED. With an initial capital of $250 million, contributed by governments and private sources, this fund would provide grants and liberal long-term loans to nations planning basic development projects like...