Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...save its two-year accumulation of timber, International last week did all it could. Lumberjacks wrapped hundreds of feet of steel cable back and forth across the piles of the Nett River Bridge over the Littlefork. Against this dam a log jam 40 feet thick and three miles long formed quickly, booming and groaning with the pressure from back stream. Meanwhile in Duluth and International Falls the toughest bars filled up with other lumberjacks waiting for the flood to subside and their own special job to begin. These were rivermen, skilled riders and drivers of logs. About 200 of them...
André Gide found himself growing more and more antipathetic to the orthodox ''revolutionary" line: "The spirit which is today held to be counter-revolutionary is that same revolutionary spirit, that ferment which first broke through the half-rotten dam of the old Tsarist world...
...imagine a guide saying: "And here is Boulder Dam--the engineering epitome of that age. And here is the Empire State: one Alfred Smith president. And for art, see here the Lincoln Memorial. A great age that was with unprecendented material progress, physical and medical research. But it got them: their material power gave them a confidence and a hollow sophistication which is always the death warrant of moral progress. It is the same old story: people thought they saw through everything and consequently saw nothing. But come, come, how many will take the ride to Mars...
...consecutive days in March. To slow down this fatality rate, the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation has instituted safety-first and first-aid instruction for the 6,000 employes. To quiet fears that the Columbia River salmon run would be ruined, plans for hatching and artificial propagation below the dam have been formulated...
...feet an hour, faster than the power shovels could get it out. The contractors were faced with a delay of several weeks and an additional excavation cost of $200,000. The engineers decided to try an old trick invented in Prussia but never before used in U. S. dam construction: freezing the front of the slide. They ran six miles of pipe into the clay, pumped in brine cooled by two big refrigerating machines, bought secondhand. The clay froze solid; the slide stopped. Cost...