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Last week the Germans were as good as ever at fighting for time. In the west they burrowed like moles, worked like beavers to dam the stream of Allied power swelling up to spill out over them. In the east they had limited for at least one more precious week the scythe-like swing of the Red Army...
Smart Blast. By last week it was clear that the Germans had made perhaps their smartest move in their play for time by blasting the floodgates of the Schwammenauel dam. The Roer, usually only 75 feet wide and knee-deep, at some points was more than 1,000 feet of brown water spilled over forested flatlands. At others it was a raging, narrow torrent...
...With the impending collapse of Germany and her destruction as a dam against Communism, Spain and Portugal, a thousand miles to the west, become the next barriers to the onrushing Red Russian tidal flood...
Since Bonneville Dam was built in 1937, the great Chinook salmon, far & away the handsomest and most valuable fish in North America, has been fighting a game but losing battle for survival. As every schoolboy knows, the salmon lives under a mysterious compulsion: it must go back to its birthplace to spawn. The spawning grounds of the seagoing Chinook, which once supplied a tasty 17,000 tons a year to U.S. tables, are in the Columbia River's cool, green tributaries far up in the northwest mountains...
With the help of man-made ladders and elevators, the Chinook managed to get over Bonneville (170 feet high), but was stopped cold by the 553-ft. Grand Coulee Dam 450 miles farther upstream. In the last three years, Grand Coulee (aided by river pollution and other liabilities of civilization) has cut the Chinook population in half. And the salmon's troubles are only beginning. The Army and the Department of the Interior have high-priority postwar plans to build eight more great dams on the Columbia-which might mean the fish's finish...