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...played a great first period," Tomassonisaid. "But in the second, the dam finally broke...
...Crimson dam held and Jonas somehow kept the puck out of the net. Among his many saves was an amazing diving poke check to knock the puck off Clarkson top-scorer Erik Cole's stick as the center attempted to skate around the netminder on a breakaway with under 10 seconds remaining in the period...
Thinking big was Steve Bechtel's forte. He learned to appreciate scale as the primary manager in the building of Hoover Dam in the early '30s, then the largest public works project in U.S. history. The wartime shipyards Bechtel organized would build 560 vessels--up to 20 ships a month--between 1941 and 1945, an astounding output even in an era of production miracles...
Bechtel got on the map in a place that was almost off it: Black Canyon, Nev. With the Depression raging in 1931, Bechtel's father helped organize a consortium called Six Companies to tackle the massive engineering job that became known as Hoover Dam. The consortium bid $49 million and made a profit...
...asking me to remove a dam protecting months--even years--of accumulated knowledge. You might be swept away in the undertow if I really let my ideas...