Word: spillways
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ideas to work, came Edgar and a group of University of California college friends, including Eugene E. Trefethen Jr., new vice chairman of several Kaiser companies, and D. A. ("Dusty") Rhoades, new president of Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. When Henry J. won a contract to build the main spillway dam at Bonneville, Ore. in the mid '30s, he turned the job over to Edgar, then 25, and Clay Bedford, a boyhood chum, who is now general manager of Kaiser Aircraft & Electronics. Swift currents and widely varying water levels made the job a tough problem-but the dam was finished...
...forms the boundary between Ontario and New York, two new dams went up-the dams that last week drowned the old rapids under a navigable lake 28 miles long and up to four miles wide. One was the St. Lawrence Power Dam. The other, the Long Sault (pronounced soo) Spillway Dam, stands across the old main river bed to divert water to the power dam and a bypass ship channel...
...There are some," said the President, his voice rising above the roar of the spillway, "who contend that the development and distribution of hydroelectric power is exclusively the responsibility of Federal Government . . . Only thus, these zealots would have us believe, can we poor citizens be protected against exploitation by what they call the 'predatory' exponents of capitalism-that is, free enterprise . . . These believers in centralization fail to warn us that monopoly is always potentially dangerous to freedom, even when monopoly is exercised by government. Curiously enough, they proclaim their fear of a private power monopoly in a county...
Grand Coulee Dam is the biggest dam anywhere. Viewed from the gorge below, it looks like the biggest thing on earth. Over its spillway, 1,650 feet wide, the great Columbia River sweeps majestically, a curve of green water up to 17 feet thick. It falls so far (320 feet, twice the height of Niagara) that it seems to fall slowly. The roar of the falling water, though loud, is as smooth as the sound of surf on a distant beach...