Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Powerful Plans. Work started immediately at Calima, a power dam on the Pacific-flowing Calima River needed to supply 120,000 kw. for electricity-starved Cali by late 1959. Next year another dam will begin to rise at Timba, which in 1962 will begin to generate 60,000 kw. of...
Once C.V.C. is in business, it will become selfsupporting, but the initial investment in dams, power plants and transmission lines will require $187 million in all (including last month's governmental commitment). A favorable report by the World Bank mission was a hint that the bank would lend a...
Berserk Feather. Near the headwaters of California's two most important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200...
By the Rivers of Babylon. The development board has already built irrigation dams across the Tigris and Euphrates north of Baghdad, while dams, channels and dikes gouged by German, French, British and American contractors will catch next spring's floodwaters for the first time and lead them into new...
The board plans five other major dams in the north, and recently let a $32 million contract for one of these, the Derbendi Khan, to the American J. A. Jones Construction Co. "Give us 30 years," says Nuri es-Said, "and if nothing goes wrong, Iraq will have 15 million...