Word: dammed
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...receives a visit from Mrs. Evelyn Mulwray, who hires him to spy on her husband, the chief engineer of Warren Power, a company which runs the water supply into the city and surrounding areas from an outlying reservoir. A new city plan proposes the building of a dam to allow more irrigation and Mulwray opposes the plan on physical principles, a view which will soon prove fatal. The thematic importance of water escalates with the drought that the region currently suffers. Water is literally life and death in Los Angeles, and to a ruthless opportunist it is a potential source...
Reporters: Hannah Bloch, Julie K.L. Dam, Tamala M. Edwards, Sinting Lai, Megan Rutherford...
Reporters: Hannah Bloch, Julie K.L. Dam, Tamala M. Edwards, Sinting Lai, Megan Rutherford...
...College, Proctor, a native of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, lived in Winthrop House and was a very serious economics student...
After amassing considerable wealth during the 1920s by building pipelines for privately held oil and gas companies, Bechtel was hired by the government to build the Hoover Dam, in Boulder, Col. From the beginning, the company's business practices were suspect...