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Most Americans still do not realize the scope of MacArthur's task in Japan. But one fact is driving itself home; while the U.S. labors on the dam that contains Communism in Europe, the Red tide has risen mightily in Asia and now threatens to engulf half the world's people. In all Asia, tiny, beaten Japan is the one place where the U.S. still has a firm foothold, where it still has a chance to redeem the West's sorry record of failure and confusion in the East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: New Door to Asia | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

...sense. To guarantee ample power for expanding industry, the government is carrying out a major program of hydroelectric-energy development. Its goal is an output of 700 million kw-h a year by 1970. The latest step in the project is the massive $10 million Caonillas Dam in the hills between San Juan and Ponce...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Man of the People | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

Goodbye to the Dam. In fact, everything is so cream-smooth in New Crete that Poet Venn-Thomas wonders 1) if the magicians, who are vegetarians, wouldn't be better off with a few chunks of red roast beef and 2) why the Goddess ever brought him there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

When water stinks, I break the dam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Perils of Utopia | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

...first dam to be built on the White Nile will be at Owen Falls, at the outlet of Lake Victoria. Another will make a reservoir out of Lake Albert. When the whole system is in operation, the water of the White Nile can be held back while the Blue Nile is flowing. The system is expected to smooth out the flow of the lower Nile through Egypt and increase the cultivated area by 1,500,000 acres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Harness for the Nile | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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