Word: boulder
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Though they will spend their money and playtime at Las Vegas, Hoover Dam workmen will live at Boulder City, a construction village being built for them 31 mi. away at the dam site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would...
...Although Secretary Wilbur changed the name of the dam from Boulder to Hoover, the construction centre did not become Hoover City...
Angry Arizona lost its big and probably ' final chance to block construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam last week. The Supreme Court dismissed Arizona's suit to enjoin California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and the Federal Government from undertaking this enterprise as a trespass on its sovereign rights (TIME, Oct. 27). Ruling that Arizona's rights were not injured by the project, Mr. Justice Brandeis declared: ''As the Colorado River is navigable and the means which the act provides are not unrelated to the control of navigation, the erection and maintenance of such...
...State of New York last week definitely decided to go into the hydroelectric power business on a scale as large as the U. S. at Boulder Dam. The Legislature at Albany passed a bill creating a State Power Authority to conduct this ambitious utility enterprise. The Power Authority will construct a $171,547,000 dam and generating plant near Massena Point on the international rapids of the St. Lawrence River. It will market the energy? some 2,000,000 h. p.?there produced, through private distributing agencies already in the utility field...
...have to wait for rain for relief, why wouldn't the best plan be to ask the Red Cross for enough money to transplant the whole crowd out here to Arizona and California where we have irrigation water (the dams are sure filling up); have Congress speed up Boulder Dam and maybe build another one or two. Here in this country they can farm twelve months a year 365 days to the year with the extra one leap year...