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Land of the Big Blue River in this issue is such a story. Grand Coulee Dam has been abuilding for 17 years, and TIME has reported on it from time to time. "Now Grand Coulee and the whole Columbia River power system have begun to change the face of the Northwest, and the editors thought that this was the proper time to show you its new face - in words, pictures and map. It takes time and space to tell this story, and that is what the special section provides. It is for the news of the times rather than...
...starred as Lord Lancashire's agent in charge of buying out the landowners of the village. In all three capacities he has performed sensitively and perhaps even poetically for three-quarters of the picture. His conclusion, however, in which an almost saintly village matron releases the floodgates of a dam to inundate her beloved Dolwyn, seems incredibly out of keeping with the rest of the picture. The matron, nevertheless, is almost always a believable and winning person, played with great tenderness by Dame Edith Evans...
...Georgi Dimitrov, famed hero of the Reichstag fire trial who died in a Soviet sanatorium last July, to Vasil Kolarov, who succeeded Dimitrov as Bulgarian Premier only to die six months later, and, inevitably, to the living god Joseph Stalin. Some samples: Kostenec summer resort, the Kapinka village dam, Small Mus-Allah mountain peak, Longos State Farm, the Vurbitsa State Forest Station, and Sofia's Physical Culture High School were renamed for Dimitrov...
About May 1, after a month back at his desk in the White House, the President will begin a slow trip westward to dedicate a new dynamo at Washington's Grand Coulee Dam. Officially, the trip will be billed as "nonpolitical," an ancient device whereby a President can pay his expenses from his $40,000-a-year travel allowance instead of from the party treasury. He will deliver the Democratic line as the presidential train winds through Maryland, where Millard Tydings is gunning for re-election to the Senate; Pennsylvania, where Democratic Senate Whip Francis Myers faces a stiff...
...which the Houses were built is filled-in swamp-land that used to flood at high tide. Even after the new living quarters were finished, exceptionally high tides would inundate the area. The situation was not improved until the course of the Charles River was altered and a dam built at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...