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...arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson, to obtain additional drinking water...
...Grand Canyon, Ariz...
...southern Californians, especially in booming Los Angeles, have long sought to multiply their resources of water and waterpower by urging the Government to build and operate a $200,000,000 dam on the Colorado River. Six other States are affected by the scheme. The proposed site is at Boulder Canyon, between Arizona and Nevada. Interstate disputes have raged, arising from cultural, economic and political differences, and differences in engineering opinion. Finally, the issue between Government operation and privateering has entered...
...There is but one limitation [to the growth of Los Angeles] which looms, . . . and that is adequate water supply. That can and must be assured from the Colorado River. . . . We want the greatest reservoir and the highest dam at Boulder Canyon that the engineers will recommend and I am hopeful that the project will receive favorable action from the present Congress...
Memorable, last week, was the completion of the merger of Dodge Bros., Inc., with the Chrysler Corp. (TIME, June 11), largest consolidation in automobile history. Memorable in the history of Wall Street, Grand Canyon of the G. O. P., was the unfurling, last week, of the first Democratic campaign banner "in 44 years. Truckman James J. Reardon, Al Smith musketeer, inspired the display. The Lower Wall Street Business Men's Organization* sponsored it. Memorable for employes, stockholders, of the General Motors Corporation, its divisions, subsidiaries and affiliated companies, were announcements of record profits, record employe insurance...