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While thousands of comrades hopped up & down on Mother Dnieper's brim, U. S. Engineer Colonel Hugh L. Cooper received, the Red Banner of Labor as did five of his U. S. assistants. Russians, although they have heard of Colonel Cooper, give most of the credit to Soviet Chief Engineer Alexander Winter, whose name few U. S. citizens have ever heard...
When the advance reached the Dnieper River, the Poles found themselves badly overextended. Thirty thousand Cossack horsemen under General Simeon Mikhailevich Budenny, fresh from triumphs over
Under a blazing August sun, hundreds of Ukraine officials and thousands of grimy Soviet citizens stood on the banks of the Dnieper one day last week and listened to oratory. The occasion was the official opening of the largest hydroelectric plant in the world: Dnieprostroy, built in five years at a cost of $110,000,000. Oratory was not the only thing turned on. Already in action were five of the nine great turbogenerators that will eventually produce 800,000 h.p. Water raised by the great concrete wall will make the Dnieper navigable up nearly...
Dams: 1) The Dnieprostroy, Soviet Russia's much-dramatized dam on the Dnieper River, which will give 70,000 sq. mi. of Russia their electric muscles. 2) The Lloyd Barrage on the River Indus which will send webs of water over six million acres of India. 3) The Alexander Dam on Kauai Island, Hawaii, noteworthy for advanced design, not bigness...
Paul Drennan Cravath, potent New York lawyer, urged diplomatic recognition of Russia by the U. S. Col. Hugh Lincoln Cooper, engineer for the huge Soviet power plant on the Dnieper, declared: "The world is making a big mistake in underestimating Russian leadership...