Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Whether or not it is ever built to dam water, the proposed 675-ft. Federal power and irrigation dam in the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River has already backed up an enormous supply of attention, irrigated the U. S. with rushing streams of propaganda and oratory, generated powerful currents of controversy. The purposes for which the actual dam is proposed...
...causes of Boulder Dam controversy...
...facts, that only 2½% of the Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...
Senator Johnson's solace in defeat was consent of the Senate to consider the dam again first thing next autumn. A resolution by Senator Key Pittman of Nevada for a quintet of engineers to examine and report on Boulder Dam once more this summer, was also passed. This report will doubtless be decisive...
...amount of work done rather than the kind was evidently what President Coolidge had to admire. Reapportionment of popular representation and disposal of the Boulder Dam bill were the gravest omissions. Disagreement on farm-relief and failure to vote at least some of the Big Navy, after Europe had been made to understand the U. S. really needs more ships, were the gravest embarrassments...