Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last winter when thousands of men were working at Passamaquoddy Dam in Maine, the U. S. Government contracted with bakers for 500 pies and 800 loaves of bread a day. When Congress denied further funds for 'Quoddy. thousands of men were laid off until only a corporal's guard was left. Six pies and eight loaves were all this remnant could consume in a day. Since New Deal regulations failed to provide for distributing food to the poor, the balance of the daily order went to the garbage heap and "Farmer Ed Pottle of Perry, who keeps...
...revolution of 1934. Although some 50 characters are introduced, most of the violent action revolves around Mudarra, a tall, impetuous Anarchist, a skilled worker in the olive fields, who seduces his best friend's sweetheart, plays the guitar with native genius, tries to blow up a dam, plots against the village priest, endures torture and a year in prison, gets free in time to burn a great store of corn, become reconciled with the friend he had betrayed, and dies as one of the leaders in the Asturian revolt...
Next day, canceling plans to view the uncompleted 'Quoddy dams by sea from the Potomac, he took his mother in his car, ferried across to the mainland to visit Lubec, Eastport, and 'Quoddy Village, so that Maine men could not say, as they did three years ago, that he had failed to visit them when only a mile away. He saw the neat, clean, $1,500,000 'Quoddy Village erected for the dam builders, was engrossed by the bathtub model of the power project with its four-inch tides demonstrating how power will be made...
...morning President Roosevelt detrained at Waterbury, Vt., to be received by Vermont's Governor Charles M. Smith, Senators Varren R. Austin and Ernest W. Gibson, Republicans all. To such political foreigners the President did not find it necessary to show his diplomatic side. He drove to Little River Dam near Waterbury, to Wrightsville Dam on the Winooski near Montpelier, thence through one of last spring's Connecticut River flood regions to Hanover, N. H., where he was met by Republican Governor H. Styles Bridges. At Little River Dam, where 1,300 CCC boys were working, he said, "This...
There is no Hell in Michigan and officially there never was one.* In 1841 Storekeeper George Reeves and his brother-in-law, Timothy Allison, of Pinckney, Mich., bought a nearby section on a lake, set some 75 men to work building a dam, mill, distillery, house and store. Shortly after the distillery started, the Government ordered revenue stamps on whiskey. According to one legend, Squire Reeves snorted: "This is hell!" According to another, Squire Reeves, when asked to name his community, replied: "I don't care what you call it; call it Hell if you like." In any case...