Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year job of building Shasta. But to strapping (205 lb., 6 ft. 3 in.), profane Francis Trenholm Crowe, general superintendent of construction for Pacific Constructors, Inc., the big moment had come four months before, when the Sacramento River began a regulated flow through outlet valves on the dam's broad, sloping downstream face. "That meant we had the river licked," said Crowe. "Pinned down, shoulders right on the mat. Hell, that's what we came up here...
Builder Frank Crowe's 19th dam is the world's second biggest concrete structure (biggest: Grand Coulee Dam). Shasta is the highest overflow-type dam in the world (602 ft.). It is also California's tallest structure. When Shasta's reservoir fills (probably in 1946), water pouring over the center spillway will fall three times as far as Niagara. For California, Shasta Dam will...
...this is Frank Crowe's work. His was not the vision, nor the planning, but he built the dam...
...years ago of American parents in Trenholmville, Quebec, he grew up playing tag across the log jams of Maine's great Ossippe River. By the time he graduated from the University of Maine in 1905 with a B.S. in civil engineering, a summer's work on dam construction on the Yellowstone River had sold him to a life of harnessing U.S. rivers. "While I was learning to build dams," Crowe reflects, "the nation got started on the biggest dam-building spree of all time. If I'd been born sooner or later, I'd have missed...
...time Boulder Dam came along (1931), Frank had a reputation: he was the man who could read blueprints at a glance (or ignore them when necessary), the man who could build dams faster than anyone else. When Henry J. Kaiser's Six Companies got the Boulder Dam bid, Frank was the natural choice to boss...