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...Loch Sloy scheme is the most ambitious hydroelectric project ever completed in Britain. Its quarter-mile-long dam pens up more than 1,000,000 cubic feet of water. It is expected to have an annual output of 115 million kilowatt-hours, most of which will be sold to Scotland's industrial Lowlands. Profits will subsidize lesser schemes which will eventually bring electricity to all Scotland...
Pointing out that these charges of treason--for that is what the Senator's charges amount to--are false will not stop a McCarthy. To shut him up, the nation must first put an end to the hysteria that has produced him. It must dam up the stream of unreasoning fear and worry which is now lapping at the base of so many minds. This is the fear that has found its expression in the silencing of teachers and television stars, of writers and speakers. It is the fear that censors a Lattimore and lets a McCarthy orate at will...
...worked, hit no snag until World War II's power shortage, when an engineer objected to dumping precious water. The Authority's top brass settled the dispute with one brief order: "Dump water any time Bishop tells you to." A lot of water has gone over the dam since then...
While atomic blows were exchanged, the Red army would engulf Europe. There is nothing yet in Europe that could dam the Red flood. U.S. atomic damage to Russia would be strategically effective only if the Red army were forced by large-scale fighting to expend its hoarded oil, ammunition and other materials. Preventive war in 1950 would mean that the Russians 1) could wreak terrible damage on the U.S., and 2) could take and hold Western Europe, which would be worth more to them than all the targets in Russia that the U.S. could destroy by atomic bombing...
...year. The camera looks aloft to watch hawks exchanging a dead mouse in midair, and under water to see weary salmon returning to their spawning beds. A young beaver goes off on his own, sets up housekeeping with a widow and her baby beaver and builds a dam for the family. A skulking coyote preys on the well-camouflaged heron and bittern and the nimble marmot and badger...