Show I Breaking Record Record Breaking Dams Are Constructed During Durin the Year I I I I The Kentucky dam on the Tennessee Tennessee Tennessee Ten Ten- river near Paducah became the dam in operation under the Tennessee Valley authority Its milo mile reservoir longest in TVA TV A provides 4 million feet acre-feet of ot Water wa Wa- water ter storage space which would be enough to absorb two feet of Mississippi Mississippi Mississippi Mis Mis- river flood crest at Cairo Illinois Nearing completion Is Fon Fon- lana tana largest and highest dam inthe In Inthe Inthe the eastern United States on the I Little Tennessee river in N North rth Car Car- olina It is the only other TV TVA A dam now under construction BI Biggest est rolled fill earthen dam Inthe Inthe in inthe the world is the Denison Texas dam on the Red river completed early in the year by army engi engi- I Its acre lake backs 80 miles up the Red lied river to Gainesville Gainesville Gainesville Gaines Gaines- ville Texas and 60 miles up the Washita river to Ravia Okla To save Oklahoma's Cumberland oilfield oil oilfield oilfield field the Washita was detoured by construction of ot 4 miles of dikes California's vast power and irrigation gation program moved d forward as a s the last concrete was poured o on n Shasta second highest dam in th the e world feet Water from th the e Friant dam in the San Joaquin valley val vat Icy ley began on June 4 to pour through h the new Madera canal Army engineers completed th the e concrete Norfork dam on the Nor North th Fork river nver in Arkansas to supply power and control floods In northern norther n Arkansas and southern Missouri |