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...kilowatts in five years (equal to 36% of Japanese capacity at that time), by building new dams as well as replacing low dams (that become useless when river waters are low) with high dams. The government also has a $1 billion roads program and plans for a new Tokyo reservoir that will require the sixth highest dam in the world and the biggest in the Orient (480 ft. high, 1,122 ft. long...
...went home broke and disgruntled. There was nothing but macaroni and butter beans for dinner. He choked them down. But he rose during the night with a glitter in his eye, got his wrench, opened four hydrants and let every drop in the town's 183,000-gallon reservoir slosh merrily down the streets. "You're fired!" cried Cleves's Mayor Fred Pontious the next morning, while the town clerk worked to get up water pressure again. "I'd do it again," said ex-Water Superintendent Morris. He seemed spiritually refreshed...
When Tight Little Island set audiences chuckling here and abroad, British film producer sealized that the antics of provincial communities were an untapped reservoir of humor. The latest in the stream of hinterland hilarity, Titfield Thunderbolt, should send the cinema men back into the drawing room. For although the film has a relatively well-known cast and Technicolor scenery resembling British Railways posters, it has very few funny lines and its slapstick is unimaginative...
...Marine pilot, Colonel Frank H. Schwable, was shot down July 8, 1952, near Hwachon Reservoir. His analysis of Communist techniques is the clearest and most detailed...
...Randall Commission, appointed by President Eisenhower to recommend changes in U.S. tariffs, makes its report. ¶Italy's Premier Giuseppe Pella complained that OEEC works to Italy's detriment because it does nothing to help solve the problem of 2,000,000 Italian unemployed, the biggest single reservoir of Italian Communists. Pella got some encouragement from the council's decision that jobs in any member country which remain unfilled after 30 days may henceforth be filled by bringing a worker from another member country. Theoretically, this would open undermanned British coal mines to thousands of Italian miners...