Word: lochs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three-Arched Abomination. Before the year was out, the elusive monster of Loch Ness had been sighted again & again. In one four-week stretch at the height of the tourist season, it was seen 20 times. Its pictures even appeared somewhat foggily in the Illustrated London News...
...spate of speculation which followed its sudden notoriety in the press, the Loch Ness monster was variously identified as a school of otters, a killer whale, the wreck of a German zeppelin, a giant squid, an "abomination with a three-arched neck" and a seagoing dinosaur...
...Scottish Naturalist and Explorer Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., tried to form a Loch Ness Monster Co. to investigate Nessie. Then in 1941, a pilot of Mussolini's air force solemnly announced that he had bombed the Loch Ness monster out of existence...
...Loch Sloy scheme is the most ambitious hydroelectric project ever completed in Britain. Its quarter-mile-long dam pens up more than 1,000,000 cubic feet of water. It is expected to have an annual output of 115 million kilowatt-hours, most of which will be sold to Scotland's industrial Lowlands. Profits will subsidize lesser schemes which will eventually bring electricity to all Scotland...
Said white-haired Tom Johnston, who lobbied loud & long for the electrification of the Highlands, is now chairman of the North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Board (which has eleven schemes like Loch Sloy under construction, 15 ready to begin and eight under survey): "Up to now our Highland people have been moving in that direction-south. Our firm intention is to reverse that direction...