Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since 1776, when Manhattan's first reservoir was built on lower Broadway and pipes made of hollow logs were laid in the streets, New York City has been trying to keep ahead of its thirst. At first it was a simple process; though the population jumped from 22,000 to 60,000 in the 25 years after the Revolution, many of the newcomers simply dug their own wells. But as the city mushroomed into a monstrous mechanism of steel, stone and subterranean conduits, it became helplessly dependent on the surrounding country...
However, Bryan emphasized, there is no cause for alarm over the situation, since with the precipitation during winter and spring the reservoirs should be replenished by next Summer. A drought at this time of year is not unnatural, as every fall there is some lack of water. Due to the new reservoir recently constructed in this area, this present drought is not serious...
...York the drought has more serious implications since more water is consumed and there is a lack of reservoir space. However, Bryan is optimistic about the situation everywhere...
Bryan pointed out that in normal years people feel no need to pay higher taxes for improvements in reservoir space. Thus, though cities expand, and therby use more water, the facilities remain the same. However, when a drought appears, the need for more funds is stamped on the taxpayers by talk of a huge water shortage. Bryan believes that though there is a definite shortage at this time, it is not as pressing as would appear. Winter and spring precipitation should, he says, replenish the low supply...
...terror and sabotage against our unions. But the greater part of our young people have no jobs at all, and walk the streets in search of employment, unable to secure adequate training facilities, unable to barter trained or untrained muscle and brain for over a pittance, forming a desperate reservoir of reserve labor and an unwitting weapon against the unemployed. Many of us are former servicemen, our meager veterans allotments exhausted, our post-war dreams of full employment smashed. To the ever-louder demands of our youth for jobs, all Wall St. men can answer is "Join the Army...