Word: mountain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...principles for which the Confederates fought did not begin with secession . . ." thundered Tom. "[They] come down to us from the heroic pages of antiquity. They may be read in the history of ... the Roman Empire and the defeat of the Roman Legion before the birth of Christ in the mountain passes of northern Europe by the Germanic people whom the Romans were never able to conquer . . . The Confederate cause is not lost and will never be lost so long as there are free and patriotic men and women...
...share of the $500 million Nechako-Kitimat project of the Aluminum Co. of Canada, probably the biggest construction job ever attempted by private capital. To supply power for a new aluminum smelter, M-K had dammed a river to form a 120-mile-long reservoir, hollowed out a mountain to enclose a huge powerhouse five city blocks long, and drilled a ten-mile tunnel to carry the water to the turbines. At ultimate capacity, Alcan's powerhouse would be able to produce 1,671,000 kw., 34% more than Hoover Dam, enough electricity to match the combined output...
...work in subzero temperatures and blinding blizzards that often buried camps under many feet of snow. The men are well aware that heavy construction is one of the most dangerous of all industries. To date, 48 men have been killed on the Alcan project, 33 in tunnel and mountain accidents, 15 in plane crashes. But no time has been lost. Three of the eight big generators are now being set in place. By July, the first power will surge over transmission cables. Wrote Morrison to Strandberg: "The gang is indeed to be congratulated...
...jungle expanding the Cubatao hydroelectric project to give the city of São Paulo 400,000 more kilowatts of electric power. On the $20 million job, M-K men were boring a 3,500-ft. river-diversion tunnel, blasting a huge underground powerhouse from the bowels of a mountain. The air was blue with humidity; the sides of the cavern dripped water; every so often, a chunk of rock broke loose, came crashing down like a thunderbolt in a closet. The men knew that they might catch amoebic dysentery, malaria, or many another crippling tropical disease, that it would...
...Conquest of Everest. A heart-stirring camera record of the 1953 expedition that fought to the top of the world's highest mountain (TIME...