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...Street Club one evening last week, Mrs. Karl Mundt was seated next to Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield. He asked after Senator Mundt, who was attending a night session of the Senate. Mrs. Mundt said the Senator (up for election next year) was downcast because of the Oahe Dam. Summerfield politely asked about the dam, and Mrs. Mundt rattled off the facts & figures. A $14 million appropriation for the South Dakota dam had been dropped from the 1954 budget, she told Summerfield, and it was a pity. After all, $16 million had already been expended on the dam, and to cancel...
...contract awarded by the Army to Britain's Ferranti Ltd., low bidder on six transformers to be installed at the McNary Dam on the Columbia River. Closest U.S. offer...
...Commission for Europe (ECE), they turned it to their own advantage. Red Rumania offered to buy generators and transformers-the very items that the U.S. had just refused, under the Buy American Act, to buy from a British firm which had placed the lowest bid for the Chief Joseph Dam contract in the State of Washington (TIME, April...
...answer to man's dwindling reserves of coal and fuel oil. In an ideal nuclear power plant, says Dr. Chauncey Starr, North American's director of atomic research, 10 lbs. of fissionable material a day could produce electric power equal to the ultimate capacity of Hoover Dam...
...harness the Snake, the Idaho Power Co. proposed spending $133 million in private funds to build three hydroelectric dams at Oxbow, Brownlee and Hell's Canyon, with a combined generating capacity of 783,000 kilowatts. But under the Fair Deal's Secretary Oscar Chapman, the Interior Department planned a much more ambitious public power program for the Snake. Chapman wanted to build a $559,791,000 multi-purpose dam that would back up the waters of the Snake River into a lake 93 miles long and flood Idaho Power's dam sites. The entire cost for power...