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...Hell's Canyon dam would repay its cost--plus interest", challenged one of the attackers. The figure at the piano lapsed from Stravinsky to Gershwin. "Besides, think of the rise in kilowatts...
...Senate voted to buy 7,000 acres of Indian reservation land for the Yellowtail Dam in the Bighorn River reclamation power project from the Crow Indian Tribe for $5,000,000. although the Federal Bureau of Reclamation had estimated that the land's actual market value is only...
...years basin planners have talked about a vast power and reclamation project to bring under control the Upper Colorado, last great unharnessed river system in the U.S. Yet four Congresses passed over the plan, mostly because of the opposition from conservationists (who feared, among other things, that a dam proposed for Echo Park, Colo, would flood the Dinosaur National Monument) and Southern California power interests (who profit under the present distribution of the Colorado's water...
Last year the Upper Colorado project was finally approved by the U.S. Senate -but its chances for House passage this year seemed doubtful. To mute the cries of the conservationists, the bill's managers agreed to drop the Echo Park dam from the House measure. Last week, while the House debated the bill, President Eisenhower made a strong plea for the bill, "an opportunity at last to treat the whole great, mighty Colorado River as a single entity, to treat it on a basin basis instead of merely local and individual. I hope we can have positive action...
...thankless ministry of public works, a graveyard of politicians that had been starved of funds for years. Karamanlis moved in briskly, scraped together a budget, and in 2½ years built and resurfaced hundreds of miles of roads, brought water to thousands of acres of reclaimed land through dam and irrigation projects, replaced his native Salonika's ancient cobblestone streets with asphalt. On inspection trips he often sat down with the work gangs and shared their cheese and olives. What was even more unheard of, he clamped down on contractors, docked them if they delayed construction beyond their contracted...