Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crash, a result of a large boulder falling from the top of the picturesque roof that covers the hall, barely stopped the undergraduates writing. However, if the large object had not lodged in two intervening beams after a fall of several feet, it very probably would have crashed through the thin second ceiling immediately sheltering the main room...
...standard yardstick for all Federal power projects. Last week Administrator Ross took his yardstick formula to President Roosevelt at Hyde Park for approval. The President approved for Bonneville only, but the idea seemed to be that if it worked at Bonneville the formula would be applied permanently to TVA, Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams and the "little TVAs" of the future. Said Mr. Ross: "We ought to be businesslike about this thing and pay Uncle Sam back the money he puts...
...three reasons. It was ordered by the Post Office after a ruling by the Interstate Commerce Commission last spring forbidding TWA to expand in that direction (TIME, March 22). It is probably the most scenic flight for its length on any U. S. airline, passing over Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Painted Desert, Indian reservations. Death Valley, high Sierras and San Francisco's famed bridges. And by entering San Francisco, TWA breaks United Air's monopoly there. Expecting to snare part of United's traffic, TWA began with two round-trips daily between San Francisco and New York...
...called "Steerometer and Reactometer," a gadget on which visitors could test their fitness to drive a car. Unexplained last week was a heavily draped pool table. A bust of John D. Rockefeller Sr. stared at a bust of Mahatma Gandhi by Jo Davidson. On tables were perspective models of Boulder Dam and an artificially moonlit Triborough Bridge, with space reserved for a coming model of the New York Exposition of 1939. After this visitors are ready for the Wine Fountain spouting real wine but not the vintages of the famed French chateaux which adorn it in symbolic model form...
...Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., other large hydro-electric projects; in Stamford, Conn. Engineer Cooper was one of the few foreigners to win the confidence of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin. His Dnepr power plant, with a 750,000 horsepower capacity, is second only to the one at Boulder...