Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Josephy spoke with officials in six federal agencies involved in flood control, land reclamation, conservation and power production in the valley, discovered that few of them had the complete picture of what the others were doing. Also involved were the governments of the ten states and various industrial, agricultural and...
Big v. Little Dams
¶ Built 17 huge multiple-purpose dams and reservoirs.
The Army Engineers insist that lower basin levee systems must be reinforced by big river flood-control dams, like the $87 million Tuttle Creek project on the Big Blue River north of Manhattan, Kans. Authorized in 1938 as the key unit in the control of the Kansas (Kaw) River Basin...
In five World War II years, Kiewit bossed or shared more than $300 million of Government contracts, ranging from Army camps in Washington, Colorado and Oregon to landing fields along the Alcan Highway. At war's end, when crapehang-ers were again crying Depression, Kiewit made his second decision...