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While neighbors looked on approvingly, bulldozers dragged the fertile topsoil from John Haussermann's farm near Alma, Neb. and dug deep into the subsoil. The draglines and scrapers were collecting fill for a dam across one of Big Muddy's most fractious tributaries, the Republican. After more than a century of periodic suspense and terror, men were harnessing their old enemy, the Missouri River...
Water & Power. The $31,000,000 Republican Dam, which Pick expects to have finished in 1950, will open up 90,000 acres to irrigation, boost farmers' income an estimated $2.5 million a year. That is only a small piece of the whole vast undertaking which covers an area bigger than France, Spain and Italy combined...
Last week, Army engineers started on Cherry Creek Dam, near Denver. Flood walls are being pushed up to make a levee system from Sioux City to Big Muddy's mouth above St. Louis. Soon the bulldozer battalions will move in on one of the biggest jobs of all-the huge dam and 200-mile-long lake at Garrison, N.D. Kanopolis Dam on the Smoky Hill, Kortes
...treaty provides that the Russians can build a dam on the Murghab River, to irrigate the barren steppes of the neighboring Turkmen Soviet Republic. It also consolidates Russia's hold on the strategically important Trans-Caspian Railroad, a branch of which ends at Kushka, near Afghan and Iranian oil. In return, Afghanistan got a couple of small islands...
...urban and industrial reconstruction, the Ukraine has fine executive and technical talent at the top official and engineering levels. Lower down is a notable lack of tools, trained supervisors and skilled labor. At the Dnieper Dam, the three head engineers were pupils of the dam's late famed U.S. builder, Hugh Cooper. Two of them had studied in the U.S. Their assistants, however, are inexperienced young engineers. Qualified foremen are rare and 40% of the labor force is made up of inefficient peasant girls, many of whom are prematurely aged by the hard manual work...