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...important river systems, the Sacramento and the San Joaquin, great dams such as Shasta, Folsom, Friant and Pine Flat curbed angry water that might have caused infinitely more damage and death. At flood's height, more than 200,000 cubic feet of water a second poured into the reservoir back of the Sacramento's Shasta Dam, which shrank the downstream rush to only 16,000 cubic feet a second, saving the rich Sacramento Valley...
...power lies in their subsidiaries-Columbia's Community Concerts, and National's Civic Concert Service-which between them have organized local civic associations in some 1,200 communities in 48 states. These groups act as local sponsors for the big agency artists, thus providing a huge reservoir of regular prepaid music consumers. Columbia's artists take about $3.2 million and N.C.A.C.'s about $1.3 million a year from the operation...
...Glee Club decided last year to sponsor a singing group for freshmen. Its objectives were to train a reservoir of singers for possible future membership in the Club and to allow more students--particularly freshmen--to participate in an organized chorus. The venture proved successful. With more than 100 freshmen singing regularly, the new chorus completed a full schedule of concerts with virtually no financial loss to its parent organization...
...Glee Club has apparently done its work too well. By sponsoring the freshman group, it obtained a reservoir of trained voices which it can never possibly-use. It also interested a great many students in choral work who now have no chance to continue singing. The three regular upperclass singing groups--the Dunster Dunces, the Krokodiloes, and the Bach Society Chorus-- are entirely different from the Glee Club. They are much smaller. Moreover, the special choruses which sing in operetta performances throughout the year often consist largely of regular Glee Club members...
...much as human hearts. The jugular vein is more than an inch in diameter, and is fitted with an intricate system of efficient valves. They apparently protect the giraffe's head from too much blood when its neck is lowered. The hoselike vein also acts as a blood reservoir. It is more or less collapsed when the giraffe's head is up, so that blood can flow into it at comparatively low pressure when the head is lowered...