U.S. At War: Columbia's Land

The nation's striking power for peace was also abuilding. Over nature's miracle rose man's; the face of the land changed. At war's end, the power and the strength, the tools and the material, would be ready to build a future as great as men could dream.

Near Redding, Calif. last week, a $100,000,000 wonder of the world neared completion (84%). By the first of next year, months ahead of schedule, Shasta Dam will go to work for the U.S.

Shasta is larger than Boulder Dam, second in all the world only to Grand Coulee in Washington. Its whirling turbines will feed power through...

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