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Answer: Co-Ops? Truth was that India's food production, increased about 18% by the dams, irrigation ditches and educational projects of the first five-year plan, has leveled off and even slightly declined in the past three years-while India's population inexorably rose by 15 million...
Paris was not for long content with such enlightened methods. Frenchmen poured into Morocco, grabbed up the best farmland with the help of laws dedicated to "extending the French presence," and allowing French farmers to pay 20% less tax than a Moroccan. They displaced the Moroccan administrators. They dug mines...
At issue in 1955 had been two alternate ways to dam the turbulent Snake River between Idaho and Oregon: 1) a single, high federal dam costing $400 million, which would generate 800,000 kw., or 2) three low, privately built dams costing $190 million, which would generate 783,000 kw...
New Climate. But public power proponents are far from giving up. Though Hell's Canyon was lost, they knew that Northwestern industrial and political climates have changed since the FPC ruling in 1955. With no big new dams completed, Northwest economic growth is slowing down. Cheap power from public...
In transforming the land, the dams have also transformed the people, who are largely of Spanish stock, and their cities. Ciudad Obregón, in the heart of the Yaqui valley, has grown from a barren crossroads to a booming city of 70,000, with modern architecture, an up-to...