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Last week, the baby of U.S. state universities showed how big it had become. It took over a big booth at the Syracuse state fair for an exhibition of displays from its various campuses. New Yorkers found that their university extends from Niagara Falls to Brooklyn, that some bits & pieces of it are more than 100 years old, others barely four. In addition to its 29-school nucleus, S.U.N.Y. has absorbed two medical schools-the Long Island College of Medicine and the Syracuse University medical school-and two small postwar colleges, Champlain and Triple Cities. With last year...
Grand Canyon), rises in the mountains of Wyoming. It floods in summer, when the high snows melt, and when the desert lands gasp for moisture. In July a spectacular sheet of white water, a quarter of a mile wide, 17 feet thick and twice as high as Niagara, spills over the top of Grand Coulee Dam. In time, this overflow will be channeled off to irrigate half a million acres of desert without sacrificing one kilowatt of electrical output. Only then will the New Deal's resettlement dream come true, in the blossoming in the sagebrush...
Corncob Nylon. With its prize plastic, nylon, Du Pont had been experimenting at a Niagara Falls pilot plant. Object: to make one of nylon's basic ingredients (adipontrile) from a chemical (furfural) obtained from corncobs and oat hulls. This had proved so successful that capacity will be doubled this year, to produce enough adipontrile to use up 200,000 lbs. of corncobs yearly...
...Federal Power Commission must approve any development, and the FPC, studying the situation since 1947, has its own $300 million project for public power. Its main feature: two and possibly three tunnels, starting three miles above Niagara Falls, which will divert water to one of two proposed Government plants at Lewiston, N.Y., five miles below the falls.*This development, said FPC, would make it possible to cut the region's power costs by one-third to one-half, and perhaps supply cheap power to northwestern Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio. But the U.S. public utility industry is already closing...
...Canada has a similar project. The two nations would share the cost of a $31 million dam, just north of Lake Erie's outlet, to control the flow into the Niagara River...