Word: pumps
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...high enough (more than 600 feet) to turn the Columbia directly into the Coulee would have backed the water far into Canada. So the dam was built to raise the water level about 350 feet. A small part of the electric power that its turbines generate is used to pump part of the river the rest of the way (280 feet) and spill it into the Coulee. This turbine-pump combination, using a river's energy to raise part of its water over its own high banks, is the key engineering trick that frees irrigation from gravity. Its efficiency...
Eventually Grand Coulee will have twelve pumps, housed in a long, tall room with the proportions of a cathedral nave. Two are already installed, driven by the most powerful (65,000 h.p.) motors in the world. Each can pump enough water (one billion gallons a day) to meet the needs of New York City. All twelve pumps together will lift 16,000 cubic feet per second-close to the average flow of the Colorado River...
Displaced Rattlers. Last week one pump was running, slowly filling a 27-mile lake in the desert-bottomed Coulee. As the water advances, it pushes ahead of it a wave of displaced rattlesnakes. One bu-reauman killed 51 in a morning...
Cotton Caravan. For cotton-spraying time in the Sudan, a British inventor has devised a camel-borne spraying machine, which he demonstrated at the International Agricultural Conference in Sussex last week. The hand-operated pump fitted with two nozzles can spray crops in desert areas where no tractor-drawn equipment can be used. A dromedary named Joan (see cut) was drafted from the Chessington Zoo for last week's demonstration...
...That man in the White House," said many. And in fact, most of the time Harry Truman appeared to be riding his program no-hands, only putting his head down and beginning to pump when he saw some political advantage. He had given his supporters in Congress almost no help. More than once he had left them in the lurch. But to lay it all on Harry Truman was to overlook the 82nd's own wobblings, digressions and busyness with grubby politics...