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What made the East's dry weather most irritating to farmers was that on the other side of the Mississippi, from Kansas to the Pacific, rainfall had averaged anywhere from 11% to 133% above normal. There had been floods in California, Arizona, New Mexico. In Lake Mead, above Boulder Dam, was stored enough water to provide every inhabitant of the U.S. with 67,000 gallons, supply New York City for nearly 27 years...
...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...