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One Okinawan businessman has contracted to build the U.S. Army's new $7,000,000 hospital; another, a onetime gardener, now owns 30 movie theaters. There are new power plants, new dams, new roads, new schools. The number of schoolrooms has increased tenfold since war's end; the...
In 1948 Secretary of the Interior Julius A. Krug proposed a high-level (602-ft.) federal dam with initial capacity of 800,000 kilowatts. Idaho Power Co. wanted to build three smaller, privately financed hydroelectric dams (initial capacity: 783,400 kw.) at Oxbow. Brownlee and Hell's Canyon sites...
Practical Considerations. The five-man FPC, which has spent two years listening to the arguments, emphasized practical considerations behind its unanimous decision. The high, multipurpose federal dam would have provided more power and slightly more flood protection than Idaho Power's dams. (Neither project provides for irrigation, and differences...
Another factor influencing the FPC decision was that the federal project, even if approved, might have been stalled indefinitely by congressional reluctance to grant the necessary funds. Bills calling for the Government dam were sidetracked in both Houses in the past session. On the other hand, Idaho Power, under FPC...
The Inland Empire of the Northwest (Nov. 1, 1954), a look at the rich land behind the Rockies and the Cascades, its people, cities, towns, dams and irrigation projects.