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Coulee Labor. At the 1,000,000 horsepower Grand Coulee dam, workmen resorted to one catpower. To get a cable through 500 feet of winding, 24-inch drainpipe, they tied a piece of string to the cable, then tied the string to a cat's tail (see cut), then dispatched the cat through the pipe, "energizing" the animal from behind with a powerful compressed-air blower...
...city in the U.S., the words 'The dam has broken' have for generations meant hell and anguish." So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood. Last week Johnstown celebrated the finishing of a flood-control project which the city hopes has freed it from deluge forever...
...deep, narrow canyons of the Big Bend section above the Rio Grande's junction with the Pecos River are ideal for a storage dam. Other dams would be needed farther down. Farmers and other users of water on both sides of the border will eventually pay back the construction cost; power companies are expected to pay 30% of it. If started just after the war, the project would be a regional cushion against a postwar slump...
...love, and a New Revised copy of School Regs. . . . Corley: the telephone number of the best decorated bank in Cambridge (especially the rear windows). . . . "Feather Merchant" Cassell: A set of life rafts in case of unseasonal heavy rains in the Boston area--size 14. . .. AND, to SINBAD: anything he dam well wants! . . . ditto the rest of you guys--this is thirty from...
...Dam or Not To Dam? Since 1927 the U.S. Government has spent well over a billion dollars and states have spent hundreds of millions more on dams, levees and river channel dredging. But it has all been of doubtful avail: last spring one of the most destructive floods in U.S. history devastated parts of Arkansas and Oklahoma. Many engineers and soil conservationists now believe that the attempt to control the Mississippi and tributaries by big dams is futile. They favor stopping floods at their source by means of many small catch basins in the feeder streams. Because the Jackson model...