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In the Hwachon Reservoir area, six miles above the 38th parallel, Colonel Harris' regiment was in a desperate fight for control of floodwaters-a scrap such as U.S. troops had not seen since the early part of 1945, when First Army doughfeet fought through the Hürtgen Forest...
Power but No Glory. The fight started in 1935 (the year Black became P.G. & E.'s president), when the Bureau of Reclamation started building Shasta and Keswick dams to get water and power to irrigate the southern part of Central Valley. The first generating units were completed in 1944...
Jobs & Lobbies. The main St. Lawrence bottleneck is a 120-mile stretch from Montreal to Ogdensburg, N.Y., where there is now a system of locks and canals providing a channel 14 ft. deep. Under the 1941 agreement, this would be replaced by a 27-ft. channel (deep enough for 80...
If the Reds drive south of the 38th parallel, then we ought to hit Manchurian industries, arsenals and power dams with conventional bombs. We ought to impose at once a blockade of the entire China coast and give extended aid to the Nationalists on Formosa. We are absolutely against any...
Points 2 and 3 were concessions to the hopeful British view that the Chinese had invaded Korea primarily to safeguard the North Korean dams which generate hydroelectric power used by Manchurian industry and furnish light to the Manchurian industrial center of Mukden, the Russian naval base at Port Arthur and...