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...Sulaimaniya, stronghold of the often rebellious Kurds, King Feisal directed the lowering of a huge, crane-borne cornerstone into the depth of the mighty gorge on the Little Zab River. When the Dokan Dam is completed, it will control costly floods, irrigate 800,000 acres of now barren land...
...land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel Hidalgo Dam, finished last year...
Only ten years ago the entire gulf coast was a useless, dusty plain. Only a few farmers eked out a skimpy existence along the riverbanks. In 1947 the government of President Miguel Alemán began construction of the $12 million Alvaro Obregón Dam on the Yaqui River, in Sonora state. Finished in 1952, it soaked more than 543,000 acres in the valley below, created a treasure house of cotton, wheat and California-sized vegetables. In 1955 the $8,000,000 Mocuzari Dam was completed near Alamos, also in Sonora state. With its irrigation system finished...
...indicated) but $240 million worth; he had mortgaged Egypt's cotton crop to the Communists for years to come. Later Nasser also triumphantly announced that the deal was with Russia itself, not Czechoslovakia. Abruptly the U.S. lost patience, withdrew its offer to help finance the Aswan Dam. In retaliatory fury, Nasser seized the Suez Canal crying: "Americans, may you choke to death on your fury." Three months later, determined not just to teach him a lesson but to topple him, the Israelis, British and French attacked Suez...
Spicy tabloid headlines and the senators own publicity-minded staging almost obscured the inquiry's intent: for the first time steps are under consideration to impose curbs on the salacious magazines. The senators were hoping to build a case for legislation that would dam the gutter press at its principal source-the Hollywood bedroom-by making it illegal for private eyes to hawk their dirty discoveries to publishers (for prices as high as $1,500 a story...