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...They witnessed a terror in France (see p. 24). They got a new campaign in Iran (see below). As had been the case at every period of imminence, misleading rumors lit up the hot countries, like sheet lightning which has no real bolt: Was the Dnieper Dam blown up? Were the Germans making armored sleighs for winter warfare in Russia? Or was the report merely a trick to lull the London-Washington Axis? Did the Americans intend to concentrate bombers against Japan at Vladivostok? Leaders spoke: Franklin Roosevelt talked a good war (see p. 12), and Winston Churchill declared...
...democratic living. Introduced in the U.S. by the American Friends Service Committee (1934), they are still run by private groups. The Friends now have 16, the Student Service five. They build schools, parks, playgrounds, cooperative houses, community centers. In Grafton, N.H., Student Service campers last month rebuilt a dam and reclaimed 500 acres of farm land...
Cleaning up the Ukraine is no afternoon tea party. It comprises an area bigger than Italy, and about one-sixth of Russia's peoples live there. But Adolf Hitler must have it, must grasp its steelworks, its great Dnieper dam, its rich black dirt which pushes up abundance and covers coal and iron...
These links will provide 200,000 more kw. (for example, by bringing Florida's current excess power to needy Georgia)-about equal to the current capacity of giant Wilson Dam, but a mere stopgap in relation to the South's increasing needs. FPC says these links can be built in six months; others say material shortages may mean it will take two years. OPM indicated that priorities would be granted wherever needed. An eighth interconnection-between TVA and Cincinnati Gas & Electric Co.-was "recommended" (FPC is wary of "ordering" another independent Government agency to do anything...
...after Calvin Coolidge signed the bill authorizing Boulder Dam in 1928, eleven coastal cities (later 13) set up the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. They voted a $220,000,000 bond issue, and in 1932 got RFC to help them sell the bonds. With a PWA loan, they started work on the aqueduct, which runs from Parker Dam, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam, to Lake Mathews, near Riverside. With the world's deepest dam foundation (233 feet under the river bed), Parker Dam stores water for the whole District system...