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Land & Water. The valley of the Snake has become one of Idaho's richest farm areas; along a 200-mile stretch of the river, business is brisk, and crops (beets, potatoes, alfalfa, produce) grow green. Water made the difference. Teddy Roosevelt's 1902 Reclamation Act brought the water...
In those months since last October, the atmosphere has changed. Both sides -Arabs, who had not wanted to talk to Johnston, and Israelis, who had not really listened-had devised new proposals. Each revised Johnston's scheme in its own interests. Instead of storing the Jordan's waters...
Under 1945 legislation, Congress had authorized the Army engineers to develop power, navigation, and flood-control features on a 100-mile stretch of the Coosa River between Montgomery and the Georgia state line. The money was never appropriated, and the Alabama Power Co., which already serves 520,718 people in...
High in the Austrian Alps, melting snow cascades in a great torrent down the sides of the Reiffeck and Kreuzeck Mountains. Why not, thought the Austrian government, harness this energy for power? Austria could use it in its reconstruction, and the surplus could be sold to northern Italy's...
Across the Pacific. Through the '30s, M-K worked on big dams: Bonneville (on the Washington-Oregon line), Imperial. Grand Coulee (Washington), a total construction effort of more than $300 million. M-K built the San Francisco side of the 4,620-ft. Bay Bridge, upped its railroad work...