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...deep, narrow canyons of the Big Bend section above the Rio Grande's junction with the Pecos River are ideal for a storage dam. Other dams would be needed farther down. Farmers and other users of water on both sides of the border will eventually pay back the construction cost; power companies are expected to pay 30% of it. If started just after the war, the project would be a regional cushion against a postwar slump...
...questionable intellect. Few, if any, of his fellow "intellectuals" could so absorb themselves in the life of the Party, so readily sacrifice to this chosen duty the pleasures and comforts of life. Above all, none could so meticulously appraise the exact temper of an audience, and then bend it to his will...
...Vinnitsa and Sarny, battles raged (see map, p. 23). More than ever, the Red Army fought for railroads. Near Vinnitsa a force under General Nikolai Vatutin kept its eye on the Odessa-Warsaw line; the Germans had to hold it to escape disaster in the Dnieper bend...
Toward Rumania. In the massive Battle of the Dnieper Bend, churning between Kiev and the Crimea since October, the Red Army won two key towns, gave Marshal Joseph Stalin cause to issue special orders of the day, Moscow cause to jubilate with fireworks and cannon...
...bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...