Word: dnieper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Using a favorite device, he suggests that Anna Livia is the River Liffey by slyly punning on the names of other rivers: "he gave her the tigris eye," "rubbing the mouldaw stains," "And the dneepers of wet and the gangres of sin in it"-for the Tigris, Moldau, Dnieper and Ganges...
...Stalin and his ministry of art, worried about the trend Russian music was taking, flayed the works of Russian modernists for reflecting "leftist tendencies." Those curious to know what it was that worried Comrade Stalin will find it in Mossolov's pounding Steel Foundry and Meytuss' cacophonous Dnieper Water Power Station, both included on these discs...
...annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long, 500 ft. high. It will swallow up 9,500,000 cu. yd. of concrete, three times the quantity required for Boulder; produce 2,520,000 electric horsepower compared with 750,000 of Russia's vaunted Dnieper. In the new dry and barren Columbia basin, Grand Coulee will irrigate and electrify 30,000 forty-acre farms capable of supporting 1,500,000 people. The lake behind it will back up 151 miles, almost to the Canadian border...
...Hugh Cooper, who built for the U. S. S. R. its vast Dnieper dam, called on the President to discuss the Tennessee Valley waterpower project, possible recognition by the U. S. of Russia...
This "progressive saving," the decree advised, "can be partly accomplished by the use of weaker light bulbs." Paradox": 700 mi. south of Moscow the Dnieper Hydroelectric Plant, star turn of the Five-Year Plan, is able to generate today more current than all Moscow could waste, is unable to run at more than a fraction of capacity because factories designed to use its giant power have not yet been built within range of Dnieprostroy...