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How the harnessing of the big river would affect all this, he was not quite sure. He worried vaguely about his spacious reaches being overrun, but as a believer in progress he only knew that he had to build his big dams and find out.
Congress had already authorized $360 million for the project. Actually, the exuberant Army Corps of Engineers had gone beyond that authorization to make contracts which would cost the Government $757 million. "The motto of the Army engineers," Douglas observed, "is 'Build us ever higher and more costly dams and...
More often the Voice really manages to convey the breadth and the vigor of the American land. A recent instance was the dramatized history of the Missouri Valley, including the Astor Fur Co. and Custer's Last Stand. The piece ended in this trite but nevertheless moving passage: "The...
Through the Senate last week passed the most popular legislation of the year: the rivers and harbors appropriation. Senators got busy salting each others' pork to the extent of $1,565,000,000 dispensing dredges, canals, dams, and beach improvements, with glee.
Pittsburgh's Dravo Corp., which builds bridge foundations, dams and power plants, has long thought it a waste of time to balance its books down to the last penny. It thought that such meticulous accounting, when it involved estimates on large projects, was not accurate anyway. Five months ago...