Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lethargic Thoughts. The Communists stoutly insisted that their dikes and dams had "victoriously passed the test of the year's first heavy onslaught," but the Yangtze went right on swelling-up to the 96-ft. mark at Wuhan, and higher. Red China desperately called upon its people to fight...
Man-Made Niagara. Three years, the labor of 10,000 men and the greatest force of construction machinery ever assembled in peacetime went into the building of Kitimat. The work was spread over an area bigger than the state of Massachusetts. Deep in the Canadian Rockies, 400 miles north of...
1953)-Lindsley's plan, which will eventually cost $700 million to $1 billion, is to divert the flow of the Yukon and other rivers, build storage dams, tunnels, penstocks and generating plants that could provide 4,300,000 horsepower of electricity, about twice what can be got from the...
The hottest political fight is over the Hell's Canyon dam on the Pacific Northwest's Snake River, one of the last great undeveloped river valleys in the U.S. The fight started in 1948 when the Interior Department proposed a huge new dam. The Idaho Power Co. countered...
Although public-power proponents have been trying to represent the power fight as a straight Democrat v. Republican affair, both parties have split, depending on individual projects. Oklahoma's Democratic Senator Robert S. Kerr is sponsor of the Markham Ferry Dam in his state, to be built by a...