Word: colorados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Work on Hoover Dam was delayed last week when heavy rains flooded the Colorado River. Water broke down a trestle, overflowed the diversion tunnels and threw 500 men out of work...
TIME is my intellectual staff of life. Without it I would be mentally dead in these days of confusion. While in camp in Colorado last summer, I actually walked two miles and back to Denver on three successive Saturdays to get a copy of TIME, and I am no longer young. Hut never before have I felt like kissing the editor on both cheeks as when I read in the current issue his matchless rejoinder to a supercilious fanatic anent the use of an innocuous expletive. It served him right, for he betrays a mentality which even TIME can never...
...pince-nez on Edward Prentiss Costigan and he looks somewhat like Woodrow Wilson before politics and illness hollowed his long cheeks. Once, when he began practicing law in Denver, he was a Republican. In 1912 he ran for Governor of Colorado on the Bull Moose ticket. Not satisfied with being beaten once, he was beaten again in 1914. Then President Wilson called him to serve on the first U. S. Tariff Commission. Incorrigibly internationalistic, he stayed there until 1928. Colorado's Democrats in 1930 sent him to the Senate where he found himself the last of the Wilsonians. A maverick...
Over the horizon from California in the long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington...
Captain Wygant left the University two weeks ago following an order from the Navy Department to assume command of the U. S. S. Colorado, one of the newest and best equipped ships in the Navy...