Word: indus
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Already the textile code forbids unreasonable "stretch-out," and requires collective bargaining. As for higher wages and shorter hours, an NRA investigation recently resulted in a report that the indus-try could not afford them under present conditions...
...went to Tibet again, this time to map some of the country's unexplored areas, to discover the source of the Indus, and to visit Tashi-lunpo, monastic citadel of the Tashi Lama, holiest man in Tibet since the flight (in 1904) of the Dalai Lama. All these things he accomplished. He interviewed the Tashi Lama himself, witnessed "devil-dances" in the sacred city, set the first European foot on the Transhimalayan range. But Traveler Hedin's graphic descriptions, no less graphic sketches, while they make good reading for armchair travelers, will lure few to follow...
India. The great Shyok ice dam in Kashmir, which melts so slowly through spring and summer that it backs up a great lake behind it each year, broke, sent a great flood lolloping down the valley of the Indus River...
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...