Word: penstocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...international hydroelectric project in history: a $157 million construction job which will divert part of the Niagara River's water around the falls, shoot it through a 5½-mile tunnel bored in solid rock 300 feet below the heart of Niagara Falls, Ont., and into a giant penstock to create 600,000 h.p. of electricity for fast-growing southern Ontario. The project, not to be confused with the much-debated St. Lawrence seaway, was approved in a treaty signed between the U.S. and Canada last year...
...skeptics were yelling up the wrong penstock. By this week, as President Truman headed west to dedicate Grand Coulee and the Columbia Basin project, the dam had long since become the world's greatest single source of electricity. When the President pushes a ceremonial button to start its newest generator (13th of 18 to be installed), Grand Coulee will be producing 1,404,000 kilowatts-enough to supply both Cleveland and Cincinnati with all their power. Yet this amazing torrent of energy will not satisfy the insatiable demand...
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