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...ahead of schedule despite 18-foot tides and a gale which forced a five-hour suspension. In the last hours, fire swept through the huddled villages, colored fireballs festooned the night sky as ammunition was exploded. Among the last demolitions were the modern hospital and the irrigation and reservoir system built by the FOA at a cost of $500,000 in the days when U.S. Intelligence officers were using an island-wide loudspeaker system to assure the islanders that the Tachens were "the bastion of Formosa" and "the steppingstones to the mainland." Said U.S. Ambassador Karl Rankin, who waded ashore...
...index cards which were soaked by rain water last Friday are now dry, but most are being pressed and won't be back in place for about two weeks, Miss Haskins said. Water damaged the cards after overflowing from an air conditioner reservoir during last Friday night's storm...
Unanswered. Lieut. General Edward M. Almond, who led the X Corps from the Inchon landing to the Chosin reservoir, estimated that victory could have been had in 1951 at the price of only 30,000 casualties, whereas subsequent casualties during the truce talks numbered...
Like many another building in Rio, the apartment house has running water only every other day, so the President of Brazil has to keep his bathtub filled as a reservoir for the dry days. Says Café Filho: "It was a tremendous disappointment for my neighbors when they realized that living under the same roof as the President did not mean they were going to get water every...
...other potent issues in an appropriations cutback for Glendo Dam and in an Interior Department decision to sell North Platte River water stored in Kendrick project to downstream users in Nebraska (he took credit for getting the latter decision modified). Campaigning last week at Powell,, Wyo.,near the Shoshone Reservoir and Heart Mountain Reclamation Project, O'Mahoney invoked two national heroes in attacking Republican power policies. Said he: "The Shoshone project was conceived by Buffalo Bill . . . who organized a company to distribute the water. It soon became apparent, however, that private capital was inadequate to do the job. Finally...