Word: river
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Weather Bureau issued emergency Flash Flood warnings late last night as the swollen river--already running three to four feet above flood level in many areas--began to cause minor flood damage near Needham...
Tarbela will be the major link in a $2 billion project to provide hydroelectric power and irrigation water for 50 million people and 33 million acres of land in West Pakistan. A second dam, the Mangla, 40 miles away on the Jhelum River, was completed last year, twelve months ahead of schedule, by U.S. contractors. The two big dams, plus smaller barrage dams and 40,000 miles of large and small canals, will interconnect five rivers flowing through West Pakistan to provide one of the world's best-developed irrigation systems. In addition, Tarbela and Mangla together will ultimately...
...crops during West Pakistan's long dry season. So much silt does the Indus carry-twice as much as the Nile at flood season-that the reservoir will be nearly silt-filled in 50 years. To overcome this problem, a link will be dug to the Haro River, which flows near the Indus, and a second reservoir will be created...
Herrick took them to Philladelphia to race on the Schuykill River. Leverett Saltonstall later would tell the CRIMSON that this experience was the turning point in their preparations: the Harvards won two races at the same distance they would race on the Thames...
...half-mile marker, both shells were rowing thirty-two strokes a minute. Then Harvard gradually stretched its meager four foot lead. The space between the two crafts widened to a length. In desperation the Union Boat increased its stroking, but they seemed to observers to be fighting with the river rather than gliding through it. The Harvards won by a length and a quarter, in the time of 7 minutes and 20 seconds...