Word: dnieprostroy
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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engineer. Nearing completion, Dnieprostroy, the monster dam and hydroelectric power plant on which Russia has spent more than 200,000,000 rubles, was officially dedicated...
Perhaps because facilities are lacking to use most of Dnieprostroy's giant power, Dictator Josef Stalin, stern realist, stayed away from the "successful opening." From Moscow he wired: DETAINED BY WORK...
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...
...practical experience of American methods thus acquired will be a lever in raising the living standards of this country. No one looking at Dnieprostroy can doubt the Soviet Union's success in becoming a great industrial nation...
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...