Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Clever Mr. Lever countered with "Vote for Lever and dam the flowing tide." Lever won the election...
First stop was at Norris, Tenn., where the youngsters spent three days marveling at Norris Dam and affiliated housing projects, hearing about TYA from Director David Eli Lilienthal and his aides. Later, the party saw the New Deal's rural electrification projects in Virginia, its Greenbelt resettlement development in Maryland. In the meantime. Lincoln's students had also spent a day looking over a Georgia Power Co. plant at Tallulah Falls, Ga.. listening to the private power companies' side of the Government-v.-private power story...
...traditions of highwaymen." Shaking their fists from the valley are Farmerette Olivia de Havilland, fiery -Planter Claude Rains and a pack of farmers. The ensuing battle is long, bloody, rough on romance. But the courts finally come through with a restraining order, which the farmers execute by blasting a dam, washing out the mining crowd in one great, glistening, gold-tinted Technicolor flood...
...addition to the Tennessee Valley development, the New Deal is engaged in completing a gigantic program to produce electric power (1 in the Gulf of Lower California, 2 at Bonneville Dam in Oregon, 3 at Memphis, Tennessee, 4 in North Florida, 5 at Passamaquoddy, Maine...
Maybe the boy had overheard his father (and namesake) chaffing me for boasting that I had rowed over twelve thousand miles on the Charles River since the Dam was built. I used to row from that beautiful northeast room of the Newell Boathouse. I'm not as deaf as a post. But I was born in the first half of the 19th century, and we are near the end of the first half of the 20th...