Word: damming
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...made the East's dry weather most irritating to farmers was that on the other side of the Mississippi, from Kansas to the Pacific, rainfall had averaged anywhere from 11% to 133% above normal. There had been floods in California, Arizona, New Mexico. In Lake Mead, above Boulder Dam, was stored enough water to provide every inhabitant of the U.S. with 67,000 gallons, supply New York City for nearly 27 years...
...list of students with whom "Charlie" was acquainted reads like a Who's Who. Franklin Roosevelt, for instance, and "all his dam kids." Then there is Leverett Saltonstall, Felix Frankfurter, Robert Benchley, Arthur Holcombe, Joe Kennedy, Archy Davison, and "Jim" Conant...
...know that St. Mary's is doing a good job of educating at least one "dam-yankee" from Belleville, Ill., who couldn't imagine going to a "larger or better college...
...Salmon, Idaho, five beavers (Castor canadensis) came downstream on Jesse Creek and built a dam within 100 feet of a site selected by reclamation engineers, thus stabilizing the uncertain water supply and saving the city the cost of a dam...
...guessed aluminum requirements (TIME, May 26), now recognized that what had been done before was not enough. RFC had already put up money for Reynolds to build two plants in competition with Alcoa. Its near-monopoly gone or going, Alcoa depended heavily on Government electricity from TVA and Bonneville Dam for additional new plants of its own. Resultant U.S. capacity (by 1943): 700,000 tons a year, probably not enough for military needs, let alone civilian and semimilitary requirements...