Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...also attended by representatives from neighboring chapters, including Dr. Karl T. Compton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Walter H. Snell, of Brown University. Dr. Jerome Howe of Worcester Polytechnic Institute and Dr. J. S. Nicholas of Yale. Besides these men, scientists from points as distant as Arizons. Colorado, and lowa attended the gathering...
Because construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam across the Colorado River at Black Canyon is the largest single engineering feat ever attempted in the U. S., individual contracting companies were hesitant about undertaking the job for the Government. Therefore a group of potent Western contractors got together, organized Six Companies, Inc. Pooling their resources they submitted a bid to the Interior Department. Last week in Washington, Secretary of the Interior Wilbur awarded the Hoover Dam contract to Six Companies as low bidder. Their price: $48,890,995.50. The U. S. is to supply concrete?20.000 freight cars of it?steel, other...
...house 2,500 workers and their families. 3) Build an eightmile, double-track, standard-gauge rail line from Boulder City down to the canyon, to the dam site. 4) Blast out of solid rock in the canyon walls four tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert temporarily the Colorado's flow 4.000 ft. around the dam site. 5) Erect a temporary dam upstream to turn the river into the tunnels and another downstream to stop backwash. Only then will the bed of the Colorado be laid bare and dry to receive the foundation, 600 ft. thick, of Hoover Dam. Power...
...Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Minnesota...
Praiseworthy were Gifford Beal's Men with Lobster Pots; Leon Krolls portrait of a baby; Lizabeth Paxton's Deshabille; Ernest Lawson's Colorado Ranch. Of the show as a whole, New York Times Critic Edward Alden Jewell commented: "It often seems as if these artists had been snowed under in the blizzard of 1888-whose 43rd anniversary has just been marked-and emerging at last from the drifts were to be seen taking up life again just where they left it. Most of the sculpture is too discouraging for words...