Word: miles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...river. In 1955 the first major funds were appropriated. From the start, opponents quipped that it would be cheaper to pave the Arkansas than to dam it. Yet the project is now three-fourths completed. Eventually, 17 locks and dams (the biggest named for Kerr) will create a 446-mile skein of lakes running clear down to the Mississippi near Yancopin, Ark., forming a barge channel nine feet deep and at least 150 feet wide...
...mile downstream stretch is already navigable, will be extended another 100 miles to Little Rock before year's end. Engineers predict yearly benefits of $69,927,400, by 1970, a strangely precise estimate arrived at by combining savings in flood control, hydroelectric energy, recreation and freight. Up and down the river, land prices have soared-in one case from $25 an acre to $2,500 with no ceiling yet in sight. Boats have become as ubiquitous as second cars. Supporters of the project claim that cheap transportation will tap the landlocked region's raw materials and enrich...
...event that the urban areas fall to invaders. The 300,000-man Yugoslav army, which is equipped with a mixture of U.S. and Soviet weaponry, is on full alert. Troops, who have orders to shoot if fired upon, are digging into defense positions all along the 800-mile border that the Yugoslavs share with Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria...
...tasks vowing to do "twelve years' work in six." Eager to aid Peru's impoverished peasants, he launched a whirlwind campaign to build houses, schools, rural airports and roads. The symbol of his dreams for Peru was a new highway cutting into the trans-Andean forests, each mile of roadway completed opening up 3,500 acres of land...
Captain Hardin and sophomore Spengler ran their usual consistent races, recovering from mediocre starts to challenge at the finish. Colburn, Roth, and Enscoe all recorded personal bests for the five-mile course...