Word: dam
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Debated the Boulder Dam bill; passed it; sent it to the Senate...
...Rejected the House resolution to adjourn May 27. (The Senators were tied, 40 to 40. Vice President Dawes cast his vote to keep Congress sitting. Friends of the Boulder Dam Bill were pleased...
After ten years of beating, Congress last week transformed a monster sword into something faintly resembling a plowshare. It was the War Department's $160,000,000 project on the Tennessee River at Muscle Shoals, Ala., a power dam to generate electricity to fix atmospheric nitrogen to make nitrates to make explosives to blow up the Enemy...
...finished product. Government operation of the power plants was retained and, as the Bill passed the House, a $10,000,000 Government power corporation was set up. Any power left over after nitrate-making may be sold to the neighboring South at cost. Also, a new $25,000,000 dam was provided, 200 miles upstream from Muscle Shoals on Cove Creek in Tennessee...
...Boulder Dam...