Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Felix, kept an eye out for a still younger brother Julius, who was just finishing college. His faith in the Kahn family was not misplaced. Louis is still Albert's chief executive and right-hand man. Felix worked with the famous "six companies" group that built Boulder Dam. Moritz, now dead, supervised most of the work on Russia's Five-Year Plan. The young Julius, later an executive with Republic Steel, invented a new and more precisely calculable method of reinforcing concrete which eventually made Albert Kahn the outstanding U.S. authority on concrete construction...
Independent engineers agreed that Douglas Dam was needed; so did President Roosevelt, Under Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson, everybody on SPAB. OPM's Bill Batt called the one-man fight against Douglas Dam an "irreparable blow to the national defense program"; McKel- lar's constituents bombarded him with angry letters. Finally he had to give...
Last winter, after Pearl Harbor, the old Senator saw his chance. Lilienthal had decided to build Douglas Dam, on the French Broad River near Knoxville, to get another 100,000 kw. of power for aluminum expansion in a hurry. When McKellar saw that the land that would be flooded was 12,000 acres owned mostly by influential canning interests, who were his friends, he balked. Douglas Dam was blocked for two months...
Along the famed road from Burma the Japanese seemed to be rushing like a flood wave on the Yangtze, irresistible and ruinous. The mere boundary between Burma and China did not dam them. They pressed headlong across into Yünnan Province, where the hills are cruel and the Governor is called The Dragon and the tribesmen are not hospitable...
...gives movement, distance and a terrifying casualness to his painful suspense. It leads the hero to the palatial Nevada ranch of the master saboteur (Otto Kruger), into the hands of the police, out of them to an abandoned desert mining town loaded with paraphernalia to blow up Boulder Dam, on to Manhattan and an ironic denouement. The Girl (Priscilla Lane), of course, is picked up en route...