Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main system was completed in 1939. Finished last week were 150 more miles of distributing lines which pipe the water from the filter plant (capacity: 1,000,000 gallons a day) near Riverside to the reservoirs of Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Long Beach, Santa Ana, nine other cities. As the sweet waters of the far-off Colorado slowly welled up last week into a subterranean chamber supplying Sunset Reservoir, Pasadena became the first community in the system to get the District's water...
...aluminum (as a cleanser) to make a ton of steel, is now using about 30,000 tons. When steel uses aluminum, it uses it up completely, and around a quarter of its products require virgin metal. But die castings need only scrap, and represent a scrap reservoir. Yet all steel has an A-10 or better priority rating on aluminum, while die castings limp along in the Bs, getting only 10 to 40% of their 1940 consumption...
...trainees in five years will have built up a $1,200,000,000 reservoir of deferred purchasing power to case the post-war let down. Far better than a W.P.A. for the ex-servicemen or a bonus paid like the last one at a time when it was economically unwise, this proposal (soon to be openly pushed by-Administration spokesmen) is from all angles desirable. It gives the economy as sound a start in the post-war world as is possible, and at the same time gives the youth in arms a no less than fair deal in the future...
...would have trouble keeping its doors open. When the emergency is over, if the colleges have withered away, America will have only a slim hope of recovering higher education for a good many years, and until it does, there can be no well educated citizens to serve as the reservoir for leadership at the time when leaders are most needed...
...should be emphasized, however, that if this last principle had been adopted at the outset, no reservoir of men for new essential work--either scientific or Industrial, the result of wartime experience--could have been created...