Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME, Jan. 28, describes a "staggeringly complex" and "technically audacious" scheme of the Russians, the Greater Volga Project, to raise the level of ancient seas and reverse the flow of rivers...
...planning Russians, who have already drawn big blueprints for everything from history to human lives, now plan to raise the water level of an ancient sea and make a few northbound rivers flow south. The staggeringly complex plan is called the Greater Volga Project. G.V.P., a technically audacious scheme, was laid aside in 1939 and is now being dusted off and revised by a special commission of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Through a series of dams, canals and reservoirs, G.V.P. would provide an all-water route from Archangel to Batum. Involving cities, towns and villages where 50 million Russians...
G.V.P. proposes to correct the situation by raising the level of the upper reaches of the north-flowing Pechora and Vychegda Rivers (see map). Here in the flatlands, an imperceptible earth curve is all that determines whether rivers flow south to the grainfields or north to the Arctic. G.V.P. wants them to flow south. The Kuibyshev dam has already been started. All the rest of G.V.P. is still just a bright gleam in the Soviet...
...music of Mozart and the music of Wordsworth are very different in expression, but both flow from the same pure fountain...
...Three new synthetic engine lubricants, all from different sources (silicones, natural gas and other organic chemicals) were previewed last week. The makers' claim: all three have a fairly constant rate of flow in boiling heat or freezing cold; none forms sludge, carbon or varnish on cylinder heads and spark plugs. California's Union Oil Co. joined the chorus with a motor oil called "New Triton," which is long-wearing, noncorrosive, sludge-free...