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Last week Northwest powermen thought they had one answer to the problem. They proposed a huge, international program that could serve as a model for developing the entire Columbia Basin. The project: a dam and power network at Mica Creek, B.C. (see map) that would back up twice as much water as Grand Coulee Dam, serve Canada and the U.S. with a whopping 3,000,000 kw. of new power...
...challenge is immense: it conjures up a vision of U.S. capital and skill flowing out to far-off lands to dam great rivers, dig new mines, so that millions who know only hunger may share in the freedom and plenty that Americans take for granted. But the businessmen in the Eisenhower Cabinet are not interested in a return to expensive giveaway programs. Their WEP is based on spreading abroad the practices and philosophy that have made the U.S. the wealthiest, most progressive nation in history. Foreign investment is to the advantage of other nations who lack the capital to develop...
...power project will be a concrete dam, 625 ft. long and 154 ft. thick, across the narrow estuary of the River Rance. Twice daily, as the 27-ft. tide rises, the sea will flow through the dam's water gates until slack tide. Then the gates will be shut. Three hours later, as the tide ebbs, the trapped water in the estuary will fight its way through 26 turbines (each...
...Especially in Maine, where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent $5,500,000 in federal relief funds trying to dam the 19-ft. tides of Passamaquoddy Bay (1934-36) before Congress cut Quoddy out of the budget...
Rock & Commuters. The conveyor-belt shuttle, which will be ready in three years, is a direct result of the success that Goodyear has had building huge industrial conveyor belts (e.g., a $1,750,000 belt to carry rock ten miles during the building of California's Shasta Dam). Since...