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...past two decades, Merritt-Chapman has had a hand in more than $1.5 billion worth of construction work, including the Mackinac Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the Niagara Power Project, the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Priest Rapids Dam in Washington and the New Jersey Turnpike. The company also undertook smaller projects ranging from roads in Ethiopia to Air Force early-warning stations in Labrador...
...frigid Labrador wilderness, the Churchill River plunges over a cliff higher by 79 feet than Niagara Falls, rushes down a series of lesser cataracts on its 200-mile course to the Atlantic Ocean. Last week, after 14 years of maneuvering, two provinces of Canada agreed to harness that mighty resource with the largest hydroelectric project ever built in North America...
...billion development will yield 4,500,000 kw. of power-more than is generated on the Niagara River and three times that of Grand Coulee Dam in Washington. It will flow 700 miles, over the free world's highest voltage (735,000 volts) transmission line, across continental Newfoundland to Quebec's provincially owned utility, Hydro Quebec. Churchill power will not only double the provincial electric output but also perhaps enable the utility company to export a surplus as far south as New York City...
...take control of a situation relieves anxiety, and what control is given to the manipulator of a hi-fi apparatus when with the flick of a wrist he may attenuate his treble, emphasize his bass, turn down the volume to a whisper, or blast the neighbors with a Niagara of sound...
...wanted to see Yellowstone took the first plane he could get to Wyoming. It landed at Cheyenne. He got out and grabbed a taxi to go to the park, only to find he was still 485 miles away. Nearly half of all incoming tourists land in New York, and Niagara is often the farthest point west they and their budgets reach...