Word: dnieprostroy
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...Biggest. On thin paper, the dam is the greatest waterpower project in the world, easily overshadowing the U.S.'s Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams, and Russia's Dnieprostroy. As projected, it will take six years and one billion dollars to build, will soar some 700 feet above its foundations, back up water for about 400 miles, and produce a staggering 10,000,000 kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other...
...been destroyed and will have to be rebuilt -from the scorched earth up. By pulling in her belt again, Russia can in time make or get elsewhere what she hopes to buy from the U.S. Example: prewar Russia ordered four of nine generators from General Electric for the Dnieprostroy Dam, built five duplicates in Soviet factories, had to wait ten years. To rebuild Dnieprostroy the Russians could now build all nine, and probably faster than before. But they have ordered all nine from...
...French railroads are in the market for 700 locomotives and 74,300 freight cars. The Indian State Railways plan to spend a billion dollars for postwar repairs and replacements. The Russians have ordered nine gigantic hydroelectric turbines, worth $12,000,000, for reconstruction of the Dnieprostroy power plant. To rehabilitate China (see FOREIGN NEWS) and later industrialize her will cost many billions. These are only a few samples of the post war overseas trade awaiting the reconversion of U.S. industry...
...turbines at the Canadian dam will generate 1,020,000 horsepower, about 25% more than the output of Russia's huge Dnieprostroy dam, which was destroyed before the Germans came. In the U.S., Grand Coulee and Boulder will each ultimately generate around twice as much power, but Canada's mammoth (nameless for military reasons) outstrips the current capacity of both of them. And it was completed in two and a half years, half the time it took to get Boulder into production...
...paid $5.50 per plate for a dinner which included Beluga Caviar spread thin on toast.† Borsch (beet soup) and Filet of Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept...