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...alter his orthodox notions about the value of a dollar. The orthodoxy led to his memorable Washington feud with White House Favorite Harry Hopkins. Ickes wanted the Depression relief funds spent through his Public Works Administration on big projects that would pay for themselves, like TVA and the Boulder and Grand Coulee dams. Hopkins, the welfare worker, wanted to push out the money in makeshift WPA projects, so most of it would go directly into wages. They both shoveled out billions while they grappled for power, but it was Hopkins who eventually got the upper hand...
...weakness stole through the thighs of Adam, unmanning him so that, to his own astonishment, he sank down into the cool grass and leaned his back against a boulder of grey granite . . . Now the first patient in the world was fully under the initial anesthesia, ready for the original surgery." When he came to, there stood Eve, "on small, bare feet in the cool grass...
...find the evidence. Attempts to find fragments of nickel-iron from the meteorite were unsuccessful. The expedition's mine detectors (lent by the U.S. Army) were scarcely more useful: they gave too many indications, squealed excitedly whenever they were brought near an ordinary granite boulder. Apparently, said Geologist Meen, the granite of the region contains enough magnetic iron ore to drive a mine detector wild...
...found the typical boulder-strewn cave that forms when mountains shudder and crack. Water filters down, eroding giant shafts, forming subterranean lakes over layers of impermeable clay. Later earthquakes sometimes crack the lake floor, draining off the water and leaving immense underground chambers...
...member from 1938 until the spring of 1943-He also refused to give the names of fellow members who he believed had also dropped their Communist connections. Back in Denver, some of the state legislators were far from satisfied. Why, they demanded, was an ex-party member teaching at Boulder...