Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Coulee Candidate Dewey met New Dealish Chief Harry Owhi of the Nez Percé Indians but was not invited to join the tribe. He looked over the dam that will produce 2,646,000 h.p., provide irrigation for approximately 1.200,000 acres, said that as an American he was proud of it, denied that it could be an issue of 1940's campaign. ("There is an important and vital issue, though, in whether the country will go ahead on the basis of free private enterprise, so that you can employ the power that is generated there to give...
...stock boom, then limited their stock distributions (Standard Brands, Johns-Manville, sprawling United Corp., ill-fated Alleghany) to rich individuals and friends. When the crash came, it was once more the House of Morgan that led the bankers' rescue syndicate: a $240,000,000 attempt to dam the flood of sales. But the effort was futile. When realistic Partner Thomas W. Lamont informed the Stock Ex change's Board of Governors of the pool, his own words skewered the situation: "There is no man nor group of men who can buy all the stocks that the American public...
After World War I Britain's railways presented their Government with a whopping $300,000,000 bill for rent and dam ages, which the Government paid under protest. This time the Government wanted nothing like that, and on Sept. 1 it simply took control of all railway transportation in the British Isles. Since then stockholders have waited anxiously to find out how much profit the Government would allow them...
Trouble with the bucks was that, as soon as they were paid a few coppers, they got gloriously drunk and ran off. One way to tempt them back was for First Officer W. L. Garner to perform his amateur conjuring tricks. On Christmas night, with the dam nearing completion, Conjurer Garner, performing in the glare of truck headlights, made a Belgian five-franc piece disappear from the hand of a small native girl. She let out a piercing scream, her arm became completely stiff, and the natives grew menacing. "She knows the money is inside her arm," grunted the native...
With the river finally dammed, the water rose rapidly and Jan. 13 was set for the takeoff. Suddenly the dam started giving way. Britons and blacks pitched in together, toiled side by side all night, finally stopped the leaks. Meanwhile the water level had sunk, the Corsair was sitting upstream, on her bottom. Tearing his hair was Imperial Airways Ace Captain Kelly Rogers, first pilot to land in New York harbor at night, who inaugurated the British north Atlantic mail service. Said he afterward: "To lift the Corsair from the water we had to sink huge petrol tanks under...