Word: dams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Kaiser's achievements were famous. Until World War II he had mainly been a road, bridge and dam builder. But he decided to make ships because the U.S. needed vessels in a hurry. "I'm a builder," Kaiser explained, "and if you call yourself a builder, you ought to be able to build anything." Using prefabricated parts and assembly-line techniques in an industry that had never known either, Kaiser's seven shipyards built 1,490 cargo ships and 50 baby aircraft carriers before the war was over. This amounted to one-third of all U.S. ships...
There was little debate on the largest public-works bill since 1963, and less opposition. Small wonder. Every state will get a piece of the action-a dam, a federal office building, a harbor-improvement project or some other goody that a Congressman can mention to his constituents. "Somebody ought to oppose the pork barrel," cried New York Republican Theodore Kupferman. Aside from Kupferman, whose Manhattan silk-stocking district got nothing...
...secular government devoid of Islamic hobbles, one that stopped barefoot wretches from sleeping in the Cairo streets and moved them into high-rise apartments. Here was a leader who asserted that the Koran could be made compatible with "Arab socialism," who emancipated women, started birth control, planned the Aswan Dam, produced nuclear energy, renounced Egypt's claim to the Sudan, and even sought a Palestine settlement. Yet even Nasser could not resist the temptation of turning from the slow, difficult tasks of true growth toward the easier course-feeding his people's hunger with visions of revenge...
...Paraná, third biggest river in South America after the Amazon and the Orinoco, is being harnessed by two dams costing an estimated $700 million. The first power plant to hum will be at Jupiá, where next June three generators will go into action. After that, others will be added every year until, by 1972, 14 are producing 100,000 kw. each. Thirty-four miles upstream, work has begun on the Ilha Solteira Dam, whose 20 turbines will produce 160,000 kw. apiece when they become fully operative...
Revenue & Relief. Recently, at a ceremony on the Jupiá dam site, Brazilian President Arthur da Costa e Silva (TIME cover, April 21) was presented with a loan of $34 million from the Inter-American Development Bank. But 70% of the Urubupungá project was home financed. In fact, a reason for building two dams instead of one was to keep finances within reach: getting Jupiá into production fast will relieve the power shortage even while it produces revenue to build the second dam...