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Word: yancopin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...start, opponents quipped that it would be cheaper to pave the Arkansas than to dam it. Yet the project is now three-fourths completed. Eventually, 17 locks and dams (the biggest named for Kerr) will create a 446-mile skein of lakes running clear down to the Mississippi near Yancopin, Ark., forming a barge channel nine feet deep and at least 150 feet wide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rivers: Unlocking the Arkansas | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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