Word: spillways
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...19th dam is the world's second biggest concrete structure (biggest: Grand Coulee Dam). Shasta is the highest overflow-type dam in the world (602 ft.). It is also California's tallest structure. When Shasta's reservoir fills (probably in 1946), water pouring over the center spillway will fall three times as far as Niagara. For California, Shasta Dam will...
Skyrocket. For years Consolidated struggled along as a modest steel fabricator (one of its big jobs was making spillway gates, tunnel forms, for Boulder Dam) until the defense program handed it a sky rocket. But it was Alden Roach who touched it off, watched his company soar to its present annual rate of $250,000,000, almost 150 times the bleak...
...would run whooping and hollering down to the creek, to try for salmon with spears, gigs, pike poles, BB guns, .22s, and even with stones. Sometimes there would be a wounded fish trapped in some shallow pool. Sometimes you could see a salmon leap a falls, or jump the spillway of a lumber company's dam. There would be a dark flash barely under the water, an explosion of water as the fish broke into the air, perhaps 15 feet, and then, if it fell back, a moment when it lay stunned before the current carried it back downstream...
...Corps). Last week the Navy offered 5,000 young men (19 to 26) a month at sea, three months of shore training to develop reserve ensigns. But neither Army nor Navy was a big enough turbine to take the great head of national energy going over the spillway last week. The best the War Department could devise to channel the flood was a form letter, advising militant civilians to watch their newspapers...