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...Escape. But to the Ft. Harrison prisoners Private McGee was just another, if slightly luckier, guy. Cried they: "If McGee got out, why shouldn't we?" When bewhiskered Colonel Peyton C. Winlock, post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...
...Biggest. On thin paper, the dam is the greatest waterpower project in the world, easily overshadowing the U.S.'s Boulder and Grand Coulee Dams, and Russia's Dnieprostroy. As projected, it will take six years and one billion dollars to build, will soar some 700 feet above its foundations, back up water for about 400 miles, and produce a staggering 10,000,000 kilowatts of electric power. It will control the floods that have devastated Central China, dry up disease-breeding lakes on the plains below the gorge, irrigate about 60 million acres, employ thousands, and, among other...
University of Colorado Boulder, Colo...
...night skeptical Landlord Bob Reynolds, of the rival Dog and Gun Inn, who had scoffed at reports of the witch's pranks, found a boulder the size of a beer barrel outside his pub door...
When Shasta is dedicated, Frank Crowe's speech will probably be the same two sentences he spoke at Boulder and Parker: "If you gentlemen want to see the fellow who really built this dam, go over to the mess hall. He wears a tin hat, his average age is thirty-one and he can do things...