Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paying tribute to the man whose special talents he has used on several occasions, President Truman last week signed the joint congressional resolution restoring the name of Hoover to Boulder Dam. He used four pens, asked that they all be sent to the nation's only living ex-President...
Republicans were pleased. The name of Boulder Dam had rankled in their breasts for 14 years.* G.O.P. loyalists like the Los Angeles Times, which had never referred to it as Boulder, crowed in triumph...
...Boulder City, nine miles west of the dam, was glum. Merchants, contemplating a quarter of a million dollars' worth of ash trays, sofa pillows and other knicknacks emblazoned "Souvenir of Boulder Dam," tried to decide what to do. They could get rid of them at a loss. But what if the next Congress were Democratic...
...week ground on. He visited the Bellas Artes palace, presented lettered gold rings to graduates in mechanical and electrical engineering, set the hearts of half the contractors in Mexico City aflutter by declaring that he would disclose the names of successful bidders on the Obregón dam in Sonora this week. Then he left town for Cuernavaca...
Died. Sir John Watson Gibson, 61, famed engineer who tourniqueted the Blue Nile with the Sennar Dam, climaxed his career with the breakwaters for the two Mulberry Harbors-the artificial ports that made the Normandy invasion easier; of lung trouble; in London. The Mulberry Harbors were started across the Channel on Dday; by D-plus-100 they had received more than two million troops, 500,000 vehicles, 17 million tons of materiel and supplies...