Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...roach are the American (an inch and a half long) and the German (half as large) ; the German is locally known as the "Croton bug" because it first invaded the city in large numbers when holes were cut in walls for water pipes, at the time the Croton Dam was built for a civic water supply. In spite of its appetite, the cock roach's chief danger to man is not destructiveness but food contamination...
...Maxence and Antoinette d'Entre mont were typical bright bubbles in the froth of prewar French life just before it went over the dam...
What makes Frank Crowe a master builder is his audacity of invention. He pioneered in using horizontal cables strung across river canyons to carry concrete from mixer to chutes into the dam. Without them, Boulder would have been almost impossible to build...
Frank Crowe is rabidly against the Administration which gave him so many dams to build, is scornful of the "socialistic" cheap power they will produce. His satisfaction comes in believing that his works will stand as monuments to human progress. "Look at that Shasta Dam. That will stand there forever, holding back the river. And the powerhouse will keep right on turning out juice until somebody discovers how to make power out of sunlight...
When Shasta is dedicated, Frank Crowe's speech will probably be the same two sentences he spoke at Boulder and Parker: "If you gentlemen want to see the fellow who really built this dam, go over to the mess hall. He wears a tin hat, his average age is thirty-one and he can do things...