Word: damming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Solod urbanely told newsmen that the Communists now hope to extend their new relationship into all phases of Middle Eastern life. Said he: "Soviet foreign policy ... is to develop relations ... in political, economic and cultural fields." Solod confirmed reports that Russia had offered to build Egypt's High Dam, Premier Nasser's No. 1 economic project, and added that already "scientific missions, archaeologists, people of agriculture and so on" were on their way from Russia to Eygpt...
...surface, the record has been amazing. Setting aside half its budget for defense. Turkey has put 22 divisions into NATO, doubled its output of steel, cement, textiles. It has built 7,000 miles of road and started a dozen multipurpose dam projects. Its most spectacular gain has been in agriculture, where, with the help of subsidies and 40,000 imported tractors, it has doubled the tilled land and turned the country into an exporter of wheat and cotton...
...rally is scheduled to get under way at 12:30 p.m. from the Wilder Dam parking lot, between Hanover and White River Junction, and will be raced through backroads of central New Hampshire...
...Swallow? A debatable solution is Sam Coon's John Day bill, which proposes the most elaborate partnership deal so far. Three local private companies would pay $273 million for the power-producing features of a $310 million dam across the Columbia River, in return get priority on its output for 50 years. The Government would build John Day Dam, own it forever and pay $37 million for navigation and flood-control features, that return no profit. John Day would have a capacity of 1,105,000 kilowatts of power (twice the potential of Bonneville Dam), permit slackwater commercial navigation...
...noisy small-town auditoriums, Coon argued that in view of congressional reluctance to pay for John Day, his bill was the only way to get it. Neuberger argued that no matter how long it took to get the dam, private utilities should not get the profits. Said he: "It isn't a partnership when one of the partners is allowed to swallow the other . . . I wouldn't care who owned General Motors if I could just have all the autos that come off the production line for the next 50 years...