Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hampshire work camp, five Harvard students and 18 other college undergraduates constructed a stone and concrete dam which will provide the town of Grafton Center, New Hampshire, with a 68 acre pond...
Representative Hamilton Fish's attempt to stem the Administration's interventionist flood with his stubborn dam of isolation was swept away in formal debate by the onslaught of William Y. Elliott, noted Gov. 1 professor, who charged that Fish was a "tool or dupe" of the Nazis...
There he set about organizing the hod carriers and common laborers. He moved in on Pennsylvania's vast dam-and road-building program...
...soon due on this front. And here the winter comes late. The Germans, apparently feeling that they had plenty of time to break through to the Caucasus and the Caspian Sea, last week went to work establishing bridge heads across the Dnieper. The destruction of the mighty Dnieperstroy Dam, confirmed last week by German pictures {see cut}, seemed to prevent crossings...
...aluminum shortage, OPM did finally name Kalunite's parent company (Olin Corp.) to operate a Government-owned plant. But OPM did not specify whether alunite ore could be used, hemmed & hawed over location of the plant. Eichelberger wanted to build on tidewater at Tacoma, use Bonneville Dam power. He called on Clifton H. Chadwick, an OPM consulting engineer, to suggest this plan. His description of the meeting: "I was treated with all the courtesy of a cross-eyed stepchild." Later Chadwick visited the site, ruled that it was unsuitable, suggested another location "15 miles out in the woods" where...