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Through the sparse wasteland south of the Grand Coulee Dam last week crawled a motorcade with 59 ranking Protestant churchmen and churchwomen. They were studying "planting" 22 new churches in an area where even houses are now few & far between...
...town of Hungry Horse (pop. 1,300) is headquarters for a $108 million dam under construction by the Bureau of Reclamation (TIME, News in Pictures, Oct. 1). A check by us of the 40 TiME-subscribing families there disclosed that 30 get their copies from the nearby Columbia Falls post office, ten others from the third class post office at Hungry Horse...
...here," wrote Editor Ruder, "we don't think of Hungry Horse as a strange name. After all, we had a construction company representative and Army engineer in the office last weekend from Chattahoochee, Fla., where a dam is being built across the Apalachicola River...
...Weather Bureau, Under Secretary Searles is a cautious believer in the possibilities of man-made rain. In 1948, when he was president of the Salt River Valley Water Users' Association in Arizona, he used cloud-seeding, then almost untested, to increase the rainfall on the watershed above Roosevelt Dam. He believes the experiments produced 12,000 extra acre-feet of water, a welcome addition in drought-plagued Arizona...
...Three withheld supplies to independent fabricators. First of all, he would need cheap electric power. It was scarce, but Harvey seemed to have no trouble finding it. He persuaded the Interior Department's Bonneville Power Administration to assign him 111,500 kilowatts from the new Hungry Horse Dam being built near Kalispell, Mont. To use the power, Harvey needed electric rectifiers. From War Surplus Boss Jess Larson, Harvey bought enough for a complete "pot-line" (i.e., enough to make 35 million Ibs. of aluminum a year). After that, all Harvey needed to make aluminum was i) a plant...