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...Back on the special train, he stopped at Grand Coulee Dam, which will eventually be 550 ft. high, 4,300 ft. long, will cost $181,101,000, (not counting $208,500,000 for irrigation canals),will impound a reservoir almost big enough for Paul Bunyan to bathe in. Said the President: ''My head is full of figures and the easiest way to describe the figures is that this is the largest structure so far as anyone knows that has ever been undertaken...
Floods & Power. From George Aiken of Vermont came a bitter blast at Federal intervention in flood control. The whole Connecticut River flood-control program has been held up by New Deal insistence that, in return for Federal aid, all reservoir and power sites be turned over to the Federal Government-which Vermont refused to do. Vermont's Aiken: "Shall the Federal Government have the authority to take from a State without its consent and with or without recompense the natural resources [reservoir and power sites] upon which the industry, the income and the welfare of the people may depend...
...time at a little less than 2? a day a head. Tuareg tempers grew no better when, upon the first distribution of relief grain several weeks ago, many died from wolfing barley, then drinking water. The Government moved again, talked loudly of a great program of well-drilling and reservoir-building south of the Atlas. The Tuaregs have little interest in reservoirs for the future, they want food now, and France cannot let them cross the mountains. Fascist propaganda, though not yet as serious in Morocco as in Tunisia, is a deep worry to French Moroc can officials. Shrewd diplomacy...
...University controls, no matter how many great and famous scholars have been developed or have been induced to study in Harvard, no matter the size of the library or the splendor of the laboratory facilities, the University has got to pass on to the students a share of its reservoir of learning, if it claims to train young men to assume their places in the society in which we live...
...legal thought. Thus, in all fairness to the man and to the University to which he is to give his services, one can ask "Is he fitted to teach and to direct the teaching of lawyers?" For Harvard, besides its function as a laboratory for new thought and a reservoir for the preservation of old, ought also to be a training school in the practice of law by young...