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...bypass is the only major seaway works in U.S. territory. Going upstream from Lake St. Francis, ships will move into the Wiley-Dondero Ship Channel, rise a total of 90 ft. in the Snell Lock and the Eisenhower Lock ("Ike's dike," in seaway slang), pass on into the new, still unnamed lake. At the western end of the lake, a 5-ft. lift in Ontario's Iroquois Lock will hoist westbound ships into the calm waters of the upper St. Lawrence for easy steaming upstream to Lake Ontario...
Laury Coolidge '58 shuttled over the one-mile upstream course in the Charles River Basin Saturday morning in 6:22, equalling the record time for the Darcy Cup single sculls race...
...believe that--I don't believe that anything beyond small things in the agricultural field or upper--upstream, things where workmen can go to work very quickly, and acceleration of program already started--for example, your Post Office and all that sort of thing...
...which had spent $2,500,000 planning its smaller dams. And it enraged some 200,-ooo politically potent sports fishermen throughout the Northwest. The dams that industrialized the Northwest have blocked great runs of Chinook salmon and steelhead trout as they swarm in from the sea to spawn far upstream. Since pre-dam 1928, the commercial salmon catch on the Columbia River alone has decreased more than 50%. Millions have been spent on devices to help mature fish climb dams, get tiny fingerlings back safely through turbine blades and out to sea. Nothing has really succeeded. At dams higher than...
...flow at Malakal and Juba. But the Sudanese, increasingly annoyed at Egypt's interference, may decide to go ahead at Roseires anyway. And they hold one long-term trump card: refusal to let Egypt undertake the proposed Aswan High Dam unless the Sudan gets more Nile water upstream...