Word: damse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately, in stressing long-term projects such as dams ("Nuri's Pyramids," they were called) and a few such eventual luxuries as a million-dollar opera house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, and letting favored sheiks gain most of the quick benefits of prosperity, the old regime neglected the...
Nuri boasted that he was no idealist but a practical patriot who aligned his country with the West as the only way of keeping the country's oil flowing and Communism out. "History would curse me," he once said, "if I appealed to the emotions of the masses at...
At the eastern end of the International Rapids, where the brawling river forms the boundary between Ontario and New York, two new dams went up-the dams that last week drowned the old rapids under a navigable lake 28 miles long and up to four miles wide. One was the...
Almost every Asian nation has grandiose plans for new roads, dams, industries -and little to pay the bills save raw materials. Owing largely to the commodity decline, according to the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East, its 16 Asian member nations had an aggregate net deficit...
In return for the right to establish its bases on Spain's strategic soil, the U.S. has so far given Franco $650 million in military assistance and defense support, another $264 million in economic aid that has helped build dams, factories, highways and housing. Critics have objected that the...