Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandmother, is discontented with her parochial life, the parochial young men who court her. One day she happens on a gypsy camp, meets a gypsy who is different from all the men she knows. She thinks of him constantly, nearly goes to him, but never does. When a nearby reservoir bursts she is sitting by the river; the gypsy rescues her from the flood and carries her to her room in safety. They keep each other alive through the cold night while half the house is swept away. In the morning, when a rescue party comes, the gypsy has gone...
...Arizona citizens could get water from the reservoir only upon payment of such charges as the Secretary of the Interior fixed, whereas California citizens in the Imperial and Coachella valleys would get water free...
...When his private 100,000,000-gal. reservoir at Pocantico Hills, N. Y. went almost dry, John Davison Rockefeller got permission to tap the Tarrytown water supply...
Last fortnight, however, Matador Franklin proved that his courage has not deserted him. One Tomas Cobos, 29, dairyman, was drowning in the reservoir near El Pardo palace. Twoscore other swimmers stood about gibbering. In plunged Matador Franklin, fished out Tomas Cobos, revived him by artificial respiration. Dairyman Cobos prepared a petition to the Government, asking the Cruz de Beneficencia (Spain's Carnegie medal) for Matador Franklin...
...fall, supplying water for the city of Athens, and overlooking the famed battlefield where the Greeks defeated the Persians in 490 B. C. The dam is faced with marble from Mt. Pentelicon (which also supplied the marble for the classic temples of the Acropolis) and the water from its reservoir travels a portion of its route to Athens via the old Hadrian Aqueduct, constructed some 2,000 years ago. Largely interested in Ulen & Co. is Matthew Chauncey Brush's American International Corp. and Charles Augustus Stone's and Edwin Sibley Webster's Stone & Webster...