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Hardest hit was the tropical city of Colima (pop. 20,000) in the foothills near the coast. At the first shock the dam guarding Colima's water supply collapsed, power lines went down, communications were cut off. Half the buildings in Colima crumbled into dust. The cathedral, rebuilt after the quake that struck Colima in 1932, was destroyed again. That night Colima was lighted up by the dull glow of forest fires, touched off by the city's charcoal-burning dumps when panic-stricken workers abandoned them...
When Grand Coulee Dam turned on the juice (TIME, March 31), it was generally said that a titanic wave of public power would soon inundate every Pacific Northwest private utility. But last week one utility laughed in the face of the spillways. Impudent little Portland Gas & Coke Company announced it would build a $1,500,000 addition to its gas by-products plant...
...must get them when it needs them. The Merchant Marine needs ships for the deserted trade routes. They must be supplied. The British need ships to live. They must be supplied. Under the Lend-Lease Act, British ships may be repaired in U. S. ports. (This week a dam aged British cruiser was headed for Nor folk for repairs that will throw an added load on the yard.) They must be repaired...
...inheritance, purchase, and out-guessing his relatives at poker. Seven months from that fall day, he had built in the Ramapo hills 30 miles of roads, a sewage and water system, a park gatehouse "like a frontispiece to an English novel," 22 cottages, two blocks of stores, stables, a dam, an icehouse, clubhouse, swimming pool...
...whole companies. (Now in Congress is a bill to give BPA this power.) Fifteen months after Bonneville's generators started purring, the project's first report ruefully admitted it had only one short-term customer, no transmission lines. Anti-Federal news papers headlined: "Bonneville Dam Has Everything But Customers." Meanwhile Dr. Raver's predecessor, the late James Delmage Ross, began to go after business through Municipals and Public Utility Districts, local autonomous public-power bodies that mushroomed after the Bonneville...