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Turkey's Premier Adnan Menderes loves dams. He considers anybody who criticizes his dams an enemy and a saboteur.
Last year critics pointed out that Menderes had plunged so heavily on new dams, plus roads, harbors and factories, that Turkey had nothing left over to make the economy run. Prices soared, people went hungry, factories came to a standstill. But dams and beet-sugar factories planted in Turkey'...
Offer from Moscow, Russia, he said, would be glad to extend a generous loan for Libya's development, with no strings attached, would send specialized engineers to build whatever Libyans wanted-hospitals, schools, harbors, dams. Prime Minister Ben Halim hustled over to U.S. Ambassador John Tappin and told him...
Maass noted that "we have built bigger and better dams, canals, and aqueducts--longer and stronger electric lines."
Positive action came the next day: the House, by a surprising 256-to-136 vote, passed the Upper Colorado bill. It authorized spending $756 million on four major dams and on participating projects that would irrigate 132,000 acres of new land and supply additional water to 230,000 acres...