Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fourth Congressional District. Pitkin County, gave Incumbent Democrat Wayne Aspinall only 50 votes, but wrote in 80 votes for Congressman John P. Saylor of far-off Pennsylvania. Reason for Pitkin County's pique: Aspinall favors but Saylor opposes the Frying Pan-Arkansas reclamation project, which would divert Colorado River water from Pitkin's side of the Rockies to the east slope...
...Lindsley's plan, which will eventually cost $700 million to $1 billion, is to divert the flow of the Yukon and other rivers, build storage dams, tunnels, penstocks and generating plants that could provide 4,300,000 horsepower of electricity, about twice what can be got from the St. Lawrence Seaway power project. All these installations, as well as the metalworking plants which would use the power, would be located in Canada...
Though eventually there should be water enough for all, the new canal will divert the Sutlej River. waters, which irrigate much of Pakistan's fertile West Punjab, before Pakistan can build compensating canals. Pakistan fears that Nehru-or a less friendly successor-could, if he wished, turn West Punjab into the desert it once...
Some 40 local landowners turned over 100 acres to Packard's project; other villagers abandoned the idleness of the coffee shops to man picks & shovels for $1.50 a day; a small army of American tractors and bulldozers moved in to divert the course of the Sperchios River. In the midst of it all, usually coatless and with shirtsleeves rolled high, Walter Packard worked side by side with his Greek friends. In a few weeks, the dubious villagers who came down each evening at dusk to watch work on the newly flooded paddyfields were rewarded with the sight of tender...
...lawyer: "One other serious charge has been made against you, and that is, from time to time you offered up a bigger bait even than David Schine to this committee to let you alone, to wit, the Air Force or the Navy, it being alleged that you tried to divert this committee from the Army to the Air Force or the Navy. What do you say about that charge...