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...falls last week, some 2,000 laborers were at work on a $43 million hydroelectric project designed to serve the power-starved cities of Brazil's "forgotten corner." In charge of the job was a corps of young (average age: 30) Brazilian engineers of the Companhia Hidro Eletrica do Sao Francisco. In the ten months since work began, CHESF has put up a city for 4,500, made a start on a 2-2-mile dam, and is getting ready to carve a huge subterranean power station in solid granite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Power for the Bulge | 9/5/1949 | See Source »

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