Word: reservoir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a vast network of dams. The first phase will take 15 years and cost $1.8 billion; the entire scheme will not be completed for at least half a century. Key project of the first-phase plan, scheduled to be started next year: a mammoth, TVA-like dam and reservoir at Sanmen Gorge in Honan Province, where the turbulent Yellow is compressed between two steep cliffs. The plans are not much different from those conceived by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists in the old days, but these projects are considered more plausible because of the Communists' ruthless ability...
...make way for the rising waters of the Sanmen Reservoir, more than 600,000 people will be moved from their homes and resettled elsewhere. The Sanmen Reservoir will be one of the world's largest. The dam will protect the area from floods, create enough electric power for the industrial needs of three provinces, and help clear the Yellow's muddy waters downstream...
...construct office buildings, etc. Ford Motor Co., for example, raised $250 million for plant expansion last month, but had to pay 4% for the 20-year loan. However, some banks are so short of money that they turn over many of their loans to insurance companies, the last great reservoir of private U.S. capital. But even some of the biggest insurance companies, e.g., Prudential, are so heavily committed that they are turning down loans they would have snapped up a year ago. The big squeeze is on businessmen who have not previously borrowed, have uncertain profit prospects or want money...
Last week Andrew Sakacs died. By this time there was no doubt as to what killed him, or how he got his fatal infection. His was the first case of plague in southern California since 1936. But millions of flea-infested rodents constitute an ever-filled reservoir of the disease throughout the West and Southwest. The hopeful word from Lockwood Valley was that with the rodents already dead, the epizootic had burned itself out. Sakacs was a casualty only by rare and unhappy chance...
...four days they were $160 in debt. To begin with, the help was a hindrance. For a wrangler, a dude ranch's jack-of-all-trades, they had Curly, "as stunning as a window dummy and every bit as bright." Curly managed to ride his horse into the reservoir, the draining of which cut off the water supply for hours. Barbara, who "didn't know a tsp. from a Tbsp.," was far from home on the kitchen range. The cook she hired was touted as "marvelous with chicken," which was the whole truth-that...