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...have only to scoop canals to bring water flowing in from the Blue Nile. Already, more than 25% of the Gezira tract is blooming-a sort of California Imperial Valley development in the midst of the parched Sudanese plains. A Sudanese proposal to expand the Gezira development by another dam on the Blue Nile at Roseires (see map) has met with violent opposition by Egypt. For years Egypt and the Sudan have worked under an agreement that gives Egypt twelve-thirteenths of the Nile's flow, the Sudan the remainder. Egypt completely controls the Jebel Auliya Dam 450 miles...
...revenue side it will recommend continued excise taxes, will gamble that a business upswing by midyear will guarantee a higher level of tax revenue than in 1958. On the expense side, the Budget Bureau will scissor administrative non-defense spending; e.g., the Interior Department will start no new dam or reclamation projects (with the possible exception of the $400 million-plus Colorado River storage dam at Glen Canyon, Ariz.); nonessential defense spending for "chrome trimmed" military construction will...
SYRIA. The Soviet aid agreement signed by the Syrians with such fanfare last October ostensibly commits the U.S.S.R. to supply in credits and technical aid about one-third the estimated $600 million cost of 19 specific development projects (among them: oil exploration, port expansion, construction of a dam across the Euphrates). But the agreement also specifies that a separate accord must be negotiated on each project before actual work is begun. The result is that Russia is not legally bound to spend a single ruble on Syrian development. And, in fact, the agreement has not yet netted Syria a single...
...work in the oilfields, he irrigated his crops; on hot summer nights he would lie down to sleep at the end of an irrigation furrow in his alfalfa field, and when the water got far enough down the furrow to lap at his body, he would jump up, dam the wet ditch and open the next furrow...
BIGGEST BOND ISSUE for a public utility in history of Pacific Northwest is making splash on Wall Street. The $250 million issue, floated by 140-firm investment syndicate for Washington's 775,000 kw. Rocky Reach Dam on Columbia River, was oversubscribed in advance despite tight money...