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Many of you will remember, I'm sure, our color pictures of this great river (TIME, Aug. 23, 1954), and the map (see cut) and detailed report on the river projects which we published in the Jan. 31 issue last year. People were talking about these Colorado River projects...
One such plan that deserves U.S. support is a proposed Special United Nations Fund for Economic Development--appropriately labelled SUNFED. With an initial capital of $250 million, contributed by governments and private sources, this fund would provide grants and liberal long-term loans to nations planning basic development projects like...
Powerful Plans. Work started immediately at Calima, a power dam on the Pacific-flowing Calima River needed to supply 120,000 kw. for electricity-starved Cali by late 1959. Next year another dam will begin to rise at Timba, which in 1962 will begin to generate 60,000 kw. of...
Once C.V.C. is in business, it will become selfsupporting, but the initial investment in dams, power plants and transmission lines will require $187 million in all (including last month's governmental commitment). A favorable report by the World Bank mission was a hint that the bank would lend a...
The board plans five other major dams in the north, and recently let a $32 million contract for one of these, the Derbendi Khan, to the American J. A. Jones Construction Co. "Give us 30 years," says Nuri es-Said, "and if nothing goes wrong, Iraq will have 15 million...