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Gauntly in the sagebrush on a windswept Nevada plain about 22 mi. from the Boulder Canyon damsite stood Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building...
...will be built at Black Canyon on the Colorado River, 30 mi. from Las Vegas. Construction job No. 1: A $2,500,000 branch railroad from Las Vegas on the Union Pacific to the dam site. The U. P. is ready to build the first 22 miles of this track, but declines to undertake the last eight miles up back-breaking mountain grades. Construction job No. 2: A $525,000 town at the dam site to house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river's flow...
...gymnasium opposing the Georgian structure of Lowell House has meant that the small buildings below Mt. Auburn Street have given way before the forward march of mass education, that the rural aspect of the streets in the vicinity of the Freshman Dormitories has stiffened into the more canyon-like semblance of Wall Street. Already the walls of the Power Plant across from Weld Boathouse have fallen, and the foundation for the third unit is about to be placed...
...great, universal "western" itself, the one about the benign Mexican badman - living in disguise and loved by his friends and the village girls- who is really the desperate Arizona Kid, and who is discovered and chased in the last reel and gets away with his sweetheart down the canyon side. Instead of rushing, it is lethargic, ornate; when no dialog or songs are possible in the script, members of the cast, apparently a cabal to slow up the action at any cost, talk or sing to themselves or to their horses, guns, donkeys, reflections in mirrors. Best shot: a high...
...register in ink, on a clock-controlled drum, the fact that his craft was in flight for the time elapsed. Later, properly equipped with a barograph, Barstow took off again. After soaring eight hours, a gust of wind caught his sailplane, dashed it to the bottom of a canyon. His injuries will confine him to bed for two months...