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¶ Low river stages in New York, Pennsylvania, the Carolinas, TVA's area in the South cut down the hydroelectric power supply, sent steam-plant output soaring. TVA with all its dams, had to turn on fuel burning plants which it took over from Commonwealth & Southern last summer.
The value of the North American beaver (Castor canadensis) lies as much in his teeth and his temperament as in his fur. In April, his working season starts. He fells trees with his sharp incisors, dams up a stream with logs, mud, leaves, boughs, increases its depth and area, builds...
Beaver dams are useful to man. They catch fine silt that otherwise would wash down stream. Beaver ponds may provide water for livestock, and conserve moisture in dry areas.
With hundreds of arid Idaho acres already reclaimed by silt-catching beaver dams, Department of Interior experts look forward to using more beavers in Oregon and California. Cost of trapping and transplanting a beaver: $8. Estimated value of one beaver's work: $300.
Pierce Hall contains the new windtunnel, just completed last fall for tests of model airplanes in wind speeds ranging up to 140 miles an hour. Here also is the Harvard Soil Mechanics laboratory, a pioneer in its field, where may be seen graphic experiments of the formation of quicksand, landslides...