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...Despite the personal support (by telegram and telephone) of Franklin Roosevelt, Jim Farley, Harold Ickes, rejected a proposal to develop and distribute public power from mighty Shasta Dam in the Central Valley...
...millions, they would take $6,000,000 (as a starter) to divert some of the flow of the big Santee River, which empties east of Charleston, into the smaller Cooper River, which empties at Charleston. But they would first impound these waters inland, build a power dam, have a "Little TVA." Navigation from Charleston upstream to Columbia, flood control on the rampageous Santee, would be their excuses for a public hydroelectric project to serve the Southeast as far around as Raleigh, Atlanta and Jacksonville from proud but sleepy Charleston...
...found himself. Of course, one cannot discount the sparkle of ingenuity and inspiration which makes the difference between mere technical exercise and great art. But the change of attitude is rapidly taking place, and when one takes into consideration the amount of water that has gone over the dam since then, the results of the approaches of the eighteenth century and that of Hindemith are remarkably similar...
Last week speed cost England dearly. Late one night, a few days after his return from Kut, where he had officially dedicated a 1,615-foot dam which will irrigate the now-dreary site of the Garden of Eden, Ghazi set out from the royal palace in Bagdad in an open sports car. He was on his way to Harthiyah Palace, a few miles from town. As he zoomed past a crossing, he lost control of the car, shot off the road smack into an electric light pole. His skull was crushed and he died within an hour. It took...
...Disney, Okla., when dynamite blasting on the Grand River dam site prevented his eggs from hatching, Justice of the Peace C. S. Bivens equipped his hens' nests with bed springs...