Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President spent a week roving through the vast forests and high mountains of the most heroic terrain in the U. S. as though he had on Bunyan's boots. Bonneville Dam, 170 ft. high, 1,250 ft. long is being built by War Department engineers complete with staircases as well as two electric elevators for traveling salmon...
...think you've got somethin there that might be worth continuin. You fellows over in Marion, Ohio always was darn good organizers and sum of the best apple sauce ever made in the country came from there. If your apple butter was only half as good, it was dam good stuff, and so you kin put me clown as a charter member...
...himself how some of the people in the States whose Senators were among its strongest opponents felt about his Court Plan has been on Franklin Roosevelt's schedule for a month. Last week he made up his mind to go. Plans called for one major speech, at Bonneville Dam, rear platform talks along the way. After his five busy days in Washington the President at week's end went back to Hyde Park to rest and map his itinerary. First public appearance scheduled was Cheyenne, Wyo., home of Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Tentative program thereafter...
...three reasons. It was ordered by the Post Office after a ruling by the Interstate Commerce Commission last spring forbidding TWA to expand in that direction (TIME, March 22). It is probably the most scenic flight for its length on any U. S. airline, passing over Grand Canyon, Boulder Dam, Painted Desert, Indian reservations. Death Valley, high Sierras and San Francisco's famed bridges. And by entering San Francisco, TWA breaks United Air's monopoly there. Expecting to snare part of United's traffic, TWA began with two round-trips daily between San Francisco and New York...
After almost a week's clowning, Editor Woods set out on another junket close to his heart, a trip to Fort Peck Dam in Montana and the Tennessee Valley. Water power projects have been almost a religion to Editor Woods ever since July 19, 1918, when he wrote for his paper a remarkable piece of descriptive prophecy: "The most ambitious idea in the way of reclamation and the development of water power ever formulated is now in process of development. The idea contemplates turning the Columbia River back into its old bed in Grand Coulee, by the construction...