Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In Shantung, boasted the New China News Agency, 200,000 common messhalls and 190,000 nurseries have freed 6,700,000 mothers for work in the fields. In Honan 7,000,000 more women are now happily working away on dams or collecting manure. Peking recently predicted that during 1958...
For the 300,000 Canadians and 2,250,000 U.S. duck hunters, 1958 will not be as good as 1957. It will still be a good year. After an early hatch because of unseasonably warm weather, drought struck the potholes. The number of breeding places dropped from 10 million to...
Gouged Earth. Desai leaves behind him an India exhaustedly beginning its twelfth year of independence. For all of its troubles-poverty, illiteracy, disease, violence -much has been accomplished. Considering the handicaps of 14 major languages and some 800 dialects, and the world's second largest supply of people (387...
Low Pressure. Armstrong learned his engineering at Utah State ('36), sharpened it as a U.S. Bureau of Reclamation dam engineer from 1936 to 1953. Moving on to Egypt's controversial-and still unbuilt-Aswan High Dam project as a U.S. consultant, he showed plenty of diplomatic savvy in...
Point Four Plan. In Coon Valley, Wis., where farmers have long been waiting for federal action on their application for a watershed flood control program, beavers moved in and built four dams.