Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One Okinawan businessman has contracted to build the U.S. Army's new $7,000,000 hospital; another, a onetime gardener, now owns 30 movie theaters. There are new power plants, new dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the...
In 1948 Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug proposed a high-level (602-ft.) federal dam with initial capacity of 800,000 kilowatts. Idaho Power Co. wanted to build three smaller, privately financed hydroelectric dams (initial capacity: 783,400 kw.) at Oxbow. Brownlee and Hell's Canyon sites...
The Inland Empire of the Northwest (Nov. 1, 1954), a look at the rich land behind the Rockies and the Cascades, its people, cities, towns, dams and irrigation projects.
At Daoud's invitation, shoals of Russians arrived in Kabul with new offers of economic aid. Their plans contrasted with the U.S.'s aid program, which, at Afghan request, has been concentrated on building remote dams in the southern desert.
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a $6,000,000 appropriation to develop a low-cost method of converting sea water, thus provide thirsty cities, Los Angeles, Houston, New York and others, with unlimited supplies; it is considering a bill to authorize longterm, interest-free loans (up to $5...