Word: cooperated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...looked across the water. They saw the 20-ft. tide of the Bay of Fundy seethe and storm between the rocky islands on the border between Maine and Canada, flooding the basins of Cobscook and Passamaquoddy Bays. One of the men was a promising young engineer named Dexter Parshall Cooper. His youthful companion, a rising young politician, was Franklin D. Roosevelt. Engineer Cooper explained a great dream of his: to throw a string of dams between the islands, harness that galloping tide to make electric power. Franklin Roosevelt's eyes gleamed with excitement as he listened to the details...
...some 20 years thereafter Engineer Cooper tried in vain to obtain backing for his tide-harnessing project, to win the consent of Canada and the state of Maine. Then one day in 1933 he explained his plan all over again to Franklin Roosevelt. The President, still enthusiastic, was now able to be of real help. Unfortunately surveys by PWA and the Federal Power Commission rejected the Cooper project as uneconomical. In the summer of 1934, with a new Congress coming up for election and the old saw. "As-Goes-Maine-so-Goes-the-Nation," in many a mind. President Roosevelt...
Maine went Democratic. So did the nation. Secretary Ickes put Engineer Cooper on a special survey committee. Its report was favorable. Before long Army Engineers found themselves standing on the brink of Cobscook Bay with $10,000,000 of relief cash in prospect and White House orders to start Quoddy Dam. To save international complications the project had been cut in half and confined entirely to U. S. waters. Even so. its estimated cost was $36,000,000. Five dams had to be built between the islands enclosing Cobscook Bay. In places the water was 150 ft. deep...
...built which would produce just as much electricity as the whole of Quoddy, thereby saving $20,000,000. They said that the nearest market for Quoddy's power was in Boston, 300 miles away, and the steam plant might better be built in Massachusetts than in Maine. Engineer Cooper talked of a market closer at hand, gave no details...
...almost washed away. Rain delayed the start one day. More rain postponed the last two rounds for another day. When the field finally went out for the last 18 holes, they met the tail end of a tornado, played under black skies that frightened spectators off the course. Cooper, worried by the strain of waiting, faltered with a 76. He went into the clubhouse to worry for one hour more while Smith was finishing with a brilliant 72 that gave him a four-round score of 285, and hit, second Masters' Championship...