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Getting Through the Day. The Dallas speech drew angry cries from Taftmen, who repeated their defense that most Ike supporters in Texas were Democrats who had no business meddling in Republican affairs. Unruffled, Ike flew off next morning to Nevada for a visit to Hoover Dam. At the dam he told reporters gleefully, "On the road out here, a veteran shouted at me, 'You'd better get in, General, or we'll both be back in the Army." After a look at Lake Mead, Ike asked how soon it would fill up with silt if no precautionary...
...south bank of the Yalu, keystone of the hydroelectric development which pipes electricity to the Chinese "Ruhr" in Manchuria, to Soviet bases in Port Arthur and Dairen, and to the Russian port of Vladivostok. It lies only 3,000 ft. from Manchurian soil. The bombers spared giant Suiho Dam itself...
...China has made substantial material progress, but only by using armies of slave laborers. One huge dam visited by Mme. Pandit was being built by 2,000,000 peasant conscripts...
...Anshan and Fushun. Under Japanese occupation (1931-45) it became perhaps the greatest industrial complex Asia had ever known. Then the Russians expertly looted it: steel plants with a 1,500,000-ton capacity were left with enough machinery for 500,000 tons; the big generators at the Sungari Dam, which fed power to the Mukden area, were carted...
...five years the gazetteers explored everything from ocean currents to ghost towns, from dam sites and battle sites to the sites of ancient ruins. But their race with a changing world had to keep on right up to the last. When the book was in galleys, an expedition discovered the highest peak of the Drakensberg range in South Africa; when the book was in page proof, another expedition "discovered" the headwaters of the Orinoco (TIME, Dec. 24). After that, the gazetteers began to lose out. Mt. Etna suddenly changed its height by erupting, and a British oceanographer located the deepest...