Word: diverts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From Tracy, the boosted Sacramento water will wind south 117 miles and spill into the San Joaquin at Mendota Pool. Then it will run down the San Joaquin, irrigating downstream lands. The payoff comes at the extreme southern end of the Central Valley. Friant Dam will divert San Joaquin water that would otherwise be needed downstream and send it through a 153-mile canal to drought-plagued Bakersfield. No Sacramento water will actually get to Bakersfield, but the effect will be just the same. As the bureaumen put it: "The rain will move 500 miles south...
...sharecroppers, chronically in debt to moneylenders. Yet, potentially, Syria is a rich land, well able to support twice her present population. Proper irrigation would double her arable land. U.N. experts have drawn up plans for a pilot irrigation project: with $15 million Syria could drain the vast Ghab marshes, divert the surplus water for irrigation and put 148,000 acres to the plow...
Tourists visiting Niagara Falls will see something besides water and mist this summer. Last week work began on the biggest international hydroelectric project in history: a $157 million construction job which will divert part of the Niagara River's water around the falls, shoot it through a 5½-mile tunnel bored in solid rock 300 feet below the heart of Niagara Falls, Ont., and into a giant penstock to create 600,000 h.p. of electricity for fast-growing southern Ontario. The project, not to be confused with the much-debated St. Lawrence seaway, was approved in a treaty...
...this is only one step in the "redevelopment" of Cambridge; another is the extension of the Concord Turnpike to Lechmere Square. The new road will divert many of the 36,000 cars and 6,000 trucks that pass Harvard Square daily, and make possible a conversion of the Square to a leisurely shopping center...
More important, the directive helped divert Congress from its primary and necessary task, the establishment of Universal Military Service and Training. The bill on which the House will vote today would force the President to re-submit U. M. S. T. for Congressional approval after he had drawn up a complete plan for the program. It does not suspend Selective Service--a system that was adequate so long as the armed forces could be kept up to strength with volunteers but cannot handle equitably the problems of long- term partial mobilizations...