Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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One Plus Zero. Nehru himself, whose dreams have always run to government-run industry, giant dams, and steel mills and machine-tool plants, has come to realize that industrialization is being dragged to a full stop by the deadweight of the impoverished villages. He went to Gangad to dramatize his...
But in 1955 the turbulent present caught up with the age-old ways of the Batonga. In Salisbury, the decision was made to build a dam across the Kariba gorge to get the power needed for heavy industry and the copper mines. The dam would turn the Gwembe Valley into...
Regarding the role of military aid in these developments, it must be said that it is quite a significant one. A powerful, well-equipped army, especially when it has had the same commander for a long period, becomes a strong force, fully capable of interfering in the politics of the...
Pour Out. Already integrated Soviet-bloc plans have driven East Germany ahead of Red China and Czechoslovakia as Russia's No. 1 trading partner, turning Soviet raw materials into every kind of machine from dynamos for Soviet dams to electronic components for Sputniks. The Russians are pouring millions of...
After the war, President Miguel Alemán plunged into deficit-spending on spectacular airports, dams, power plants. He winked at corruption in government, got rich quick. Puritanical Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, who followed Alemán in 1952, took the role of consolidator. He hooked up power lines and irrigation...