Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around playing hearts, rummy or backgammon with his family. At his $3,000,000 Seal Harbor house, he loved to prowl along the rocky Maine coast with his wife, Eleanor Clay Ford (whom he had married in 1916), to find a cozy corner in the lee of a boulder and read to her in his soft, shy voice. He played tennis, avoided stuffy gatherings, kept himself in fine physical fettle. His main interest was art: he spent a summer trotting through Europe's galleries, later gave some $600,000 in objets d'art and contributions to Detroit...
Shasta is larger than Boulder Dam, second in all the world only to Grand Coulee in Washington. Its whirling turbines will feed power through the West. Its huge bulk-580 ft. thick, more than 560 ft. high, 3,500 ft. long-will back water 35 miles up the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud rivers. Along with the Friant Reservoir on the San Joaquin River, this man-made great lake will irrigate 1,000,000 California acres which would otherwise be largely desert...
Editor Purdy's first Victory, printed mainly to induce Congress to appropriate enough money to finance it, was a handsome 80-page job printed on heavy slick paper. After excellent air views of New York City and Boulder Dam, a fine shot of a tree-shaded, U.S. residential street and a picture of an Indiana dirt road complete with rugged farmer, there were full-page color photos of Franklin Roosevelt (with a story about him) and Henry Wallace (with an article by him). Other features: a three-page color spread of Marines training for combat; a double-truck photo...
...turbines at the Canadian dam will generate 1,020,000 horsepower, about 25% more than the output of Russia's huge Dnieprostroy dam, which was destroyed before the Germans came. In the U.S., Grand Coulee and Boulder will each ultimately generate around twice as much power, but Canada's mammoth (nameless for military reasons) outstrips the current capacity of both of them. And it was completed in two and a half years, half the time it took to get Boulder into production...
...publicized businessman of 1942, not only because of his immense energy and drive but because he applied them to the most critical of all problems-the supply of shipping. Kaiser had never built a ship up to the time that Hitler invaded Poland. He had built highways, helped build Boulder Dam, and had learned, in his own phrase, to handle "the heavy materials." Kaiser's ability to handle heavy materials allowed him to cut the time for delivering a Liberty ship from an initial 197 days to an average of under 40 days in his Portland yards, as against...