Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...places the water was 150 ft. deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels. It was forseen that for ten hours a day. between tides, turbines could not turn, but while they were operating it was planned to use their power to pump seawater to an upland reservoir, whence it could return creating auxiliary power during Quoddy's idle hours...
...Maine as a whole was apathetic to President Roosevelt's expenditure of relief millions within its borders. The Maine legislature had failed to set up a Quoddy Power Authority, which was part of the agreement with the Federal Government. The ground for the upland reservoir proved to be so sandy that it would not hold water, and plans had to be made for a steam plant to operate during Quoddy's ten idle hours. Critics contended that for $16,000,000 a steam-generating plant could be built which would produce just as much electricity as the whole...
...rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir under most of the State. By drilling wells to the limestone, water can be tapped and in many places brought to the surface like a stream from a firehose. So much water flows through the limestone that, for example, Silver Springs, close to Ocala, pours...
Thus at a time when the wheat importing areas of the earth need more grain than they have bought in years, Canada alone can supply them. So for once it looked as if a governmental stabilization scheme might turn a profit instead of the usual loss. With its enormous reservoir of wheat accumulated in tireless attempts to support the Winnipeg market, the Canadian Grain Board can almost dictate its own prices...
...Refusing TVA's request for legalized control over all dam building in the Tennessee basin, a power which under existing law it had exercised merely by the "land shark" practice of buying up little parcels of land where Aluminum Co. of America was trying to purchase reservoir sites...