Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt last week sent a chit to remind his Congress that one of his New Deal projects would be ready to begin functioning before the end of this year. That was the $45,000,000 Bonneville dam on the Columbia River 30 miles above Portland. He sent a report saying: "Incidental to its major purpose of improving navigation, the project will produce electric energy which will be used in the operation of the dam, locks and fish-ways, and surplus power will be available for distribution to the public." He urgently advised Congress to pass a bill providing...
...other single lock in the world. Since it is the only dam in the U. S. (except abandoned 'Quoddy on the opposite side of the U. S.) situated on tidewater, it will enable ocean-going vessels, once channels have been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams are built (if ever), will open some 600 miles of the Columbia River to navigation. At present one boat with 600-ton capacity is being built and half a dozen 300-ton barges are planned to make...
...unfinished dam. Unfortunately salmon swim blindly into places where the current is strongest, and if the 50,000 salmon a day which pass upstream at spawning time do not like the new conveniences provided for them, it will be just too bad for the $10,000,000-a-year Columbia River salmon industry...
Lost Horizon (Columbia). As soon as Director Frank Capra read James Hilton's prizewinning, million-copy novel, he wanted to screen it. He says: "The story had bigness. It held a mirror up to the thoughts of every human being on earth...
...delegates prepared to go into session, they heard shocking news. From the pinks of Columbia University's Teachers College, word went out that their Grand Old Man, grey, kindly Professor William Heard Kilpatrick, was being "forced" out at Teachers College's compulsory retirement age, 65. Professor Kilpatrick, in whose classes many an N.E.A. superintendent once sat, insisted that he was still "well and strong" enough to teach, that the rule had been set aside in the past for "conservative" faculty members. When stocky, conservative Dean William F. Russell of Teachers College turned up in the convention to deliver...