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What About the Dam? As the ponderous curtains of rain swept on through the darkness, San Antonio waited nervously for something worse. Would the Olmos Dam hold? It had been built after the disastrous flash flood of 1921, had been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
...dramatically as it had begun, shortly after dawn. Downtown streets were free of water by noon. The sun came out. San Antonio still waited tensely. Then the suspense ended. The sudden storm had killed six people, made 5,000 temporarily homeless, caused $5,000,000 in damages. But the dam, with the water from a mile-long lake lapping up within six feet of its rim, stood firm...
MINDEN, La.-The body of a 28-year-old Negro who "carried pictures of nude white women" was found beaten to death on the dam of a small lake near here last Friday, and deputy coroner Thomas Richardson today described the killing as a lynching...
...have to do. He signed it "with reluctance." He also attached a message. To the public he said that holding prices in line was as much its job as it was Government's. To the Congress he said that if the bill and the people themselves fail to dam inflation he would call Congress back into a special session to frame a stronger...
O.P.A. or no O.P.A., the consumer will be doing the right thing by himself and his fellows by out waiting those who stop the flood of production from irrigating the country's dry economy. If you wait long enough the dam will have to overflow. If you have a choice, do not buy. More and better will be had for less within a year. Even the N.A.M. says...