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...Denverites the 41-year-old Castlewood Dam, 30 mi. back in the hills above the city, has been a blessing and a menace. It provided a huge irrigation reservoir three miles square. It checked the occasional rampages of Cherry Creek, the historic stream which sluices between concrete embankments through the heart of the city to empty into the South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak...
Second central reservoir was Institutional Securities Corp., a mortgage pool which can tap R. F. C. credit up to $100,000,000. I. S. C. will offer one more ready market for mortgages, may ease the pressure for foreclosures in the New York area...
Besides these large obstacles, there are minor ones. Some object on moral grounds to the introduction of alcohol in any form. This argument can and should be answered by facing that fact known to all, that every college is at the present a perfect reservoir of bad liquor, and that the only influence of beer would be a salutary one leading away from poor gin. There will undoubtedly be other technical difficulties to be overridden. For instance, the beer cannot nominally be handled by the University Dining Halls, but must be dispensed by the individual House Clubs; prices will have...
...continue for three or four months beginning June 20. Grenfell urgently expresses the need for all volunteers who can pay their transpiration and expenses. In the past years about 150 Harvard men have responded, and this year plans are being completed for installing a hydro-electric plant, utilizing a reservoir built by volunteers...
...house, with terraced gardens, a pool on each terrace, and drives flanked by Japanese maple, dogwood, evergreens. He wore a cropped mustache and bejewelled stickpin, was referred to as an "oldfashioned banker." one whose suggestions were "received with respect in Washington." (In 1918 he suggested filling the Central Park Reservoir with coal. "New York has its Croton; why not a coal reserve...