Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Camille Chamoun climbed aboard, and the carrier headed back to sea for a demonstration of its capabilities. Among them: tight formations of dive bombers and jet fighters screaming over Beirut's rooftops, lifting away over the snowcapped mountains to the east and fanning out through the Bekaa valley between Lebanon and Syria...
...Democratic victories in the Northwest last year on a public power platform-there is growing pressure for more Government help in developing the vast Columbia River basin. Below Hell's Canyon on the Snake River (chief Columbia tributary), private power had planned two power-only dams at Pleasant Valley and Mountain Sheep. Though approved by former Interior Secretary Douglas McKay, the plans were tentatively disapproved by an FPC study last month that favored a proposed $450 million multipurpose (power, flood control, irrigation) federal Nez Perce dam below the confluence of the Snake and Salmon Rivers. In addition. Interior Secretary...
...cannot tell. When Dylan Thomas confused his audience he was lyrical enough to attract dramatic explicators. He also made a little sense on first reading. When Thomas described "a dingle starry" in Fern Hill, he had set it in the night, and the reader could see stars over the valley. But when Kozol writes of a "starry dingle" it is broad daylight, and indeed the whole phrase serves no apparent purpose in the story. I cannot resist the conclusion that Kozol is playing games with himself. And yet, discovering that the story was enthusiastically received by Professor MacLeish's writing...
...transforming the land, the dams have also transformed the people, who are largely of Spanish stock, and their cities. Ciudad Obregón, in the heart of the Yaqui valley, has grown from a barren crossroads to a booming city of 70,000, with modern architecture, an up-to-date airport (with cotton planted between the runways) and a home-grown crop of millionaires. The small farmer-owners, grown suddenly prosperous, make good customers for the show windows filled with gleaming new appliances and U.S.-made farm machines. Los Mochis, the sugar-mill center of the Fuerte valley, is just...
...work, drilling experimental wells, and surveying. It will not be long, they say, before the whole coast line from the U.S. border to Culiacán. in Sinaloa state, will be one big garden. The project can hardly help paying. Last year the crops grown in the Yaqui valley were worth more than the construction cost of the dam and irrigation system...