American Engineer Plans Great Dams for Asia
Dr Savage, chief designing engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation, outlines Far East dam projects on the Yangtze and Indian Ganges. He envisions a 750 foot Yangtze dam with 24 generators and 20 tunnels, irrigation for vast farmlands, and navigation improvements up to Chungking, while stressing public service over profit.
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Europe
Grande Coulee
Boulder
Shasta
Norris
Tennessee Valley
John Lucian Savage
Bureau of Reclamation
Department of the Interior
Far East
Chiang Kai-shek
China
India
Palestine
Savage
U S
State Department
Uncle Sam
Yangtze
Chungking
Potomac
Ichang
Yangtze Gorge
Boulder Dam
Colorado
United States
Punjab
Ganges
Afghanistan
Congress
New South Wales
University of Wisconsin
American Society of Civil Engineers
Jefferson's farming genius shaped soil care and early agronomy
The article lauds Thomas Jefferson for pioneering soil conservation and modern farming methods at Monticello. It details crop rotation, legume use, contour plowing, livestock breeding with James Madison, and invention of farm gear such as an all metal plow and seed drill. It connects Jefferson’s agricultural work to later soil science and national progress.
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Monticello
Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Martha Wayles Skelton
Virginia
Agricultural College Agronomists
England
George Washington
James
Thomas Mann Randolph
Martha Jefferson
James Madison
Jefferson Plantation
Middle West
Indehe
Capitol
Richmond
University of Virginia
James Monroe
John Jay
Military and political jabs echo over Berlin and Washington
The piece mocks wartime policy figures like General Arnold over industry control and Morgenthau’s role while noting Washington cherry trees as Korean, Berlin’s radical reports, and Nazi obituaries in German papers signaling underground ties and shifting loyalties.
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Washington
Jefferson’s Violin Solace in Youth at Williamsburg
The article recalls Thomas Jefferson at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg with a fiddle under his arm. It notes a tale of Jefferson courting Martha Skelton while rivals peek through the window, and that he later continued to play Cremona violin as duties grew, with music books now preserved by the Jefferson Memorial Foundation thanks to Miss Fannie M Burke.
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Union
Virginia Hills
Thomas Jefferson
Monticello
White House
James Madison
United States
Jefferson
Virginia
Williamsburg
College of William and Mary
Martha Wales Skelton
Skelton
Martha
Skelton Jefferson
Cremon
Joseph Pulitzer
St. Louis
Eisenhower quotes and wartime humor from a 1940s notes column
The piece covers General Eisenhower's indignant stance against subversive groups and calls him Alarmist Ike. It recalls anecdotes about Eisenhower's mother in Abilene, Kansas, Fred Allen, Horace Greeley, Joseph Pulitzer commentary, and wartime letters. It also notes camp news in New Jersey, theater, and trends in war reporting including Burma battles and Allied victories.
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Eisenhower
Abilene
Kans
Radio programs travel by wire across the nation
Millions realize many radio programs travel long distances via telephone lines rather than through air. An example notes a New York origin program heard in San Francisco through a local station. The wire transmission covers about 3,000 miles, while the radio wave reach is under 30 miles.
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New York
San Francisco
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Union Trust Building
Washington, D. C
Dama
Australia
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Burrinjuck
Department of Interior
Arnold
Army Air Force
RAF
Russia
Peter I
Berlin
Moscow
Elmo Scott Watson
Madison
John Adams
Marquis de LaFayette
Arthur Young
Bankhage
Air Force
Treasury
Morgenthau
Winston
F T Miller
Ike
Walter
Fred Allen
Mark Twain
Will Rogers
Horace Greeley
Tribune
Greeley
New Jersey
U. S
America
A. J. Cronin
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Joseph Conrad
Mario Berlinguer
Rome
Flying Glass
Signor Berlinguer
Broadway
Jan Murray
Mabel
Jean
Burma
Thi Tre
Humber
Post
Housewives
Maca
Northwestern Yeast Company
Ashland Ave
Chicago
Northwestern Yeast CO
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