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Switzerland's Grande Dixence Dam is completed on the Dixence River in Vaud canton. Built in stages as the alpine working season permitted, the gravity dam is 285 meters (935 feet) high, 695 meters (2,280 feet) wide at its crest, and will remain the world's tallest dam until 1980.

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