Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viewed from the canyon's high rim, the dam looks too small to create, as it will, a patch of mottled green land nearly as big as Connecticut. But all modern irrigation dams look small when compared with what they do. They accomplish their ends by geographical judo, playing...
New Tricks. The bureau's early projects were dams that watered lands downstream through canals flowing by gravity. Such "gravity sites" are almost gone, so the bureau has developed new tricks. Last week three of its greatest projects were close to completion. Each of them has a different trick...
In the Hwachon Reservoir area, six miles above the 38th parallel, Colonel Harris' regiment was in a desperate fight for control of floodwaters-a scrap such as U.S. troops had not seen since the early part of 1945, when First Army doughfeet fought through the Hürtgen Forest...
Power but No Glory. The fight started in 1935 (the year Black became P.G. & E.'s president), when the Bureau of Reclamation started building Shasta and Keswick dams to get water and power to irrigate the southern part of Central Valley. The first generating units were completed in 1944...
The public power-minded bureau had a solution: start competing with P.G. & E. But before congressional committees, Black argued that the bureau would merely be duplicating lines that P.G. & E. already had. Black's solution was for P.G. & E. to buy the bureau's power at the dams...