Word: damming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...over 1944. Its 600,000 consumers used 48% more power for 21% less money than the average U.S. consumer (1.85? per kwh. v. the national average of 3.47?), thanks to the fact that TVA can spread its operating costs over more projects. Example: dam building can be charged off to malaria and flood control, etc., instead of power production...
...virtually completed its flood control and navigation projects in 1945. It closed the mile-and-a-half-long Kentucky Dam near the mouth of the Tennessee River and 480-ft.-high Fontana Dam on he Little Tennessee. With these and the 24 other dams in the system, TVA now has a navigation channel on the Tennessee some 650 miles long; and 13,000,000 acre-feet of water storage space for flood control, navigation and power...
...terrible explosion, probably far down in the two-and-a-half-mile tunnel, for no sound had been heard outside. There was fire in the coal only 500 feet in, and more fires beyond. There were innumerable slate falls and blockades of rubble. Timbering was shattered, the ventilating system dam aged, and there was blackdamp as well as thick, choking coal smoke inside...
...President, always a confident man, was more than usually off-hand in his optimism over the nation's ability to meet its problems. In a dam-dedicating speech at Gilbertsville, Ky. (pop. 355), he said: "We are having our little troubles now-a few of them. They are not serious. Just a blow-up after a letdown from war. . . . We still have a few selfish men who think more of their own personal interests than they do of the public welfare. But you are not going to let them prevail. You are going to force everybody to get into...
Next day he was off to Reelfoot Lake, across the Mississippi in Tennessee, for bass and crappies fishing. There he told the world again that the U.S. does not intend to give away the "know-how" of the atomic bomb. Then he had a dam to dedicate at Gilbertsville, Ky., before he got back to the White House...