AIDED by engineers of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Chinese Government is planning the largest irrigation and hydro-power project the world has ever known. Key feature of the project, which will revitalise the jam-packed, hunger-ridden and floodmenaced Yangtze River Valley, is a huge dam about 300 miles east of Chungking. Here are two artists' conceptions of the dam: Top, the Yangtze gorge dam—it will be the . world's largest concrete: dam, America's Grand Coulee not withstanding. Below, mam. moth gantry cranes may be used to get ships past the dam. They will straddle the lock and lift or lower ships 550 feet. Vessels will require specially reinforced bulls.
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Chronicle (Levin), 1 May 1946, Page 2
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108AIDED by engineers of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the Chinese Government is planning the largest irrigation and hydro-power project the world has ever known. Key feature of the project, which will revitalise the jam-packed, hunger-ridden and floodmenaced Yangtze River Valley, is a huge dam about 300 miles east of Chungking. Here are two artists' conceptions of the dam: Top, the Yangtze gorge dam—it will be the . world's largest concrete: dam, America's Grand Coulee not withstanding. Below, mam. moth gantry cranes may be used to get ships past the dam. They will straddle the lock and lift or lower ships 550 feet. Vessels will require specially reinforced bulls. Chronicle (Levin), 1 May 1946, Page 2
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