Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel companies do not wish to expand their capacity, the fabulous Henry J. Kaiser of Boulder Dam fame would like to do the expanding for them...
...Bonneville, Shasta, Boulder, Parker, Colorado-Big Thompson and TVA power projects: transformers, generators, turbines...
However, no particular honor is lost by Mr. Kaiser in this regard, inasmuch as he was a principal in the construction of the Boulder Dam (the world's highest) and Grand Coulee Dam (the world's largest in point of volume of concrete). Shasta, when finished, will be second-highest and secondlargest...
Dynamic Engineer Kaiser does not recognize nature's other obstacles any more than he kowtows to time. He has headed companies which helped build the Grand Coulee Dam (largest in the world), the Boulder and Bonneville dams, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge (longest in the world). When slides threatened to hold up work at Coulee, he froze a hillside solid to keep it in place. At Shasta Dam, which he is now building in northern California, he ran a ten-mile conveyor belt smack over a mountain when railroads refused to run a spur to his construction camp...
...Greeks claimed continuing success against these counterattacks. They said they had taken, and turned against the Italians, "highly impressive" new enemy fortifications near Corizza. At a mountain pass, a bomb dislodged a huge boulder, blocked a highway and trapped a convoy of 100 trucks, which the Greeks said they bombed to destruction. The Greeks still had things to laugh about: they heard that the new Italian Commander in Chief, Ugo Cavallero, had chosen to go to Albania the safe way-by land through neutral Yugoslavia, disguised as an engineer...