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Having swept over the dam in the Senate, the Seaway's next obstacle is the House, where some of its foes have already shown signs of weakening...
...sculptor to do a new figure for the top of the 97-ft. shaft of the Yorktown, Va. monument commemorating Washington's victory over Cornwallis, its eye fell on Norwegian-born Oskar Hansen, 61. Hansen was a monument-maker of some repute: he did the figures at Boulder Dam, a World War I memorial in Hinsdale, Ill., and a Columbus memorial in Rio de Janeiro. What was needed at Yorktown was a new statue of Liberty to replace the one decapitated by lightning...
...private power squabbles, the choice raised charges from public powerites that he was hand-picked by private powermen. Pearl insists he has no partisan interest in public v. private power disputes, though he supports development of the Snake River's Hell's Canyon by multiple private dams instead of one public dam. His reason: the multiple dams will produce more power in less time. Said Pearl: "The question is not one of public v. private power, but one of economy and engineering facts...
...English Electric Co. Ltd., designers and manufacturers of the twin-jet Canberra bomber being built under license in the U.S. by Glenn L. Martin Co., landed its second big U.S. hydroelectric contract in a year. The company, which previously won an order for transformers for the Chief Joseph Dam in Washington, underbid four U.S. firms for two generators for the new Mc-Nary Dam on the Columbia River. The bid: $3,651,476, some $600,000 under that of the nearest U.S. competitor, General Electric...
Actually, the P.U.D.s had already drawn up some plans for similar partnership power projects. At Rocky Reach on the Columbia, Washington's Chelan County P.U.D. hopes to build a nine-unit $234,340,000 dam that will produce 600,000 kw. of power. The Grant County P.U.D. has already asked Congress to authorize an even bigger project: an estimated $400 million dam at the Columbia's Priest Rapids that will produce...