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...actual construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators forget Boulder...
...hundred years ago the good St. Sergius began what was now ended. Pouncing with zeal on the debris, each of the 5,000 Comrades picked up as big a chunk of stone as he could carry, ran panting and puffing with it as fast as he could to the brink of the wimpling Moskva, plumped his burden in, watched exultingly while it sanka fitting deathday tribute to LENIN...
Attacked on three fronts, the Nationalist Government of slender President Chiang Kai-shek teetered perilously on catastrophe's brink last week, then swung back to safety. Chief stabilizer was a high and bloody victory over the rebellious "Ironsides" divisions of General Chang Fa-K'uei in his attempt to capture Canton...
...secret, however, that today clash will decide Harvard's future. The Army tie followed by Dartmouth crushing win left the University players on the brink of demoralization and only victory over Florida will restore the confidence necessary carry on against Michigan, Holy Cross and Yale. Victory for the southern invaders, on the other hand, coming at a time when the outlook is more optimistic would raise havoc. There is feeling around Soldiers Field that the poor showing on the last two Saturday was caused by the absence of Harper from the lineup. This afternoon's game will find the crack...
Quite satisfied with the dullness of the campaign was Stanley ("Safety First") Baldwin. Paused on the brink of the election, he issued to the press a statement which reminded U. S. citizens of "Keep cool with Coolidge" (1924), or for that matter of any statesman in power and up for re-election...