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Builder Frank Crowe's 19th dam is the world's second biggest concrete structure (biggest: Grand Coulee Dam). Shasta is the highest overflow-type dam in the world (602 ft.). It is also California's tallest structure. When Shasta's reservoir fills (probably in 1946), water pouring over the center spillway will fall three times as far as Niagara. For California, Shasta Dam will...
Commerce and Conservation. "In international trade a genuine interchange of materially needed commodities must take the place of a struggle for so-called favorable balance. . . . We must recover reverence for the earth and its resources, treating it no longer as a reservoir of potential wealth to be exploited, but as a storehouse of divine bounty on which we utterly depend...
...great reservoir of good will toward the U.S.-a reservoir that stretched from Occupied France to the Middle East, and on to beleaguered China-was showing signs of a lowered water level. One such sign came in a report from Algiers, from the New York Herald Tribune's Sonia Tomara...
...Long View. The importance of the Middle East oil lies in the fact that it is the world's one great oil reservoir outside the Western Hemisphere. No two-out of hundreds-of estimates agree on how much oil is left in this Hemisphere. The minimum is Harold Ickes' terse "The U.S. cannot oil another...
...level is low, the infection is severe. Treatment begins with an injection of sulfadiazine and a continuous slow drip of salt solution into a vein. After the drip has gone on for about four hours, a measured amount of the special rabbit serum is put into the reservoir of weak salt solution. The amount used depends on the amount of infection. All the serum is given in two hours...