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...Some $2.7 billion in RFC money helped finance relief and thousands of public-works projects, including San Francisco's Bay Bridge ($73 million), the power line from Hoover Dam to Los Angeles ($23 million), and New York's Jones Beach State Park...
...Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation: Wilbur App Dexheimer, 52, veteran (25 years) Reclamation Bureau engineer. Dexheimer was an associate engineer on the Hoover Dam project, built airstrips in China during World War II as General "Vinegar Joe" Stilwell's staff engineer, helped solve postwar dam problems in Australia, Formosa and Mexico. His name was submitted by Interior Secretary Douglas McKay after the White House turned down the nomination of Marvin Nichols, a hydraulics and sewage engineer, and a Texas Democrat. Although he supported Ike in 1952, Nichols also served Harry Truman as nickel adviser to General Services Administrator...
Casualties were severe on both sides. When the weather cleared and U.N. planes began raking the flow of Chinese reinforcements, the attacks petered out. The Hwachon dam and reservoir (supplying most of Seoul's electric power) and the U.N. communications hubs at Chorwon and Kumhwa, which had seemed threatened under the first impetus of enemy attack, were safe. A new U.N. first line was established at the base of the Kumsong salient. But the salient itself was gone. At the cost of thousands of lives, the proposed armistice line was a little straighter-in the Communists' favor...
...north to inaugurate, with the help of Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis, the latest McCormick power project, a $15 million, 90,000-h.p. hydroelectric plant on Quebec's north shore of the St. Lawrence. Built by the colonel's Manicouagan Power Co. and dominated by McCormick Dam, the plant will supply reserve power for McCormick's paper mill in nearby Baie Comeau...
...Garrison, Ike was taken on a tour of the dam site and shown a scale model of the project. One of his Army Engineers guides, General William Potter, remarked that perhaps such models should be sent around the country so the people could see what they were getting for their money. Half grinning, the President snorted: "Did you ever stop to think that if they find out, they may stop you some...