Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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 the $165,000,000 Boulder Canyon dam. Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer, who really started this greatest project of all time-the Hoover Dam!"- Then all trooped back...
From 1912 to last week a revered Baptist minister superintended the multifarious business of the Colorado Anti-Saloon League. One of his functions: choice of local political candidates to be endorsed by the League. High public officials sought his political blessing. After the Dry landslide of 1928 he, if gifted with egotism, may well have fancied he superintended the entire State...
...Colorado. The political grip of Senator Lawrence Cowle Phipps was broken when Republican voters defeated William Van Derveer Hodges, his candidate to succeed himself, and gave nomination to George Hamlin Shaw, Denver attorney. Onetime Treasurer of the Republican National Committee, Mr. Hodges had the support of the Anti-Saloon League. Nominee Shaw...
...communities near actual mining operations, mine shares are always great attractions. In Spokane, Vancouver, Denver, Calgary, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City, bankers and laborers take frequent fliers in penny stocks. Toronto and Montreal are scenes of a tremendous turnover in mining shares. In the unlisted department of the Toronto market are such divergencies as International Nickel, Subbury Mines (1½?), Imperial Oil (Standard of New Jersey Subsidiary), Murphy (3?), Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting, Big Missouri (62?, controlled by Consolidated Mining & Smelting...
...Colorado. In the ancient untouched Lowry Ruins of southwestern Colorado, an expedition has been digging under the direction of Dr. Paul S. Martin, assistant curator of the Field Museum, Chicago. Cutting into the mounds, scientists found the houses and pottery of three highly developed Indian tribes built one on top of the other. Ten men throwing out 21 tons of debris per day cleared...