Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. William Mulholland, 79, builder of the 250-mi. $25,000,000 Owens River-Los Angeles Aqueduct, chief engineer of the St. Francis Dam which collapsed in 1928, killed 400; following an apoplectic stroke; in Los Angeles. An Irish immigrant boy, Builder Mulholland went to Los Angeles in 1877, found it a city of 10,000 people, took a job as zanjero (ditch-tender), studied engineering, enabled the city to attain a million population as a result of his daring municipal water system. When the collapse of the St. Francis Dam caused $30,000,000 damage and the worst flood...
...already tense with excitement over rumors of undue White House pressure in behalf of the "death sentence.'' His voice throbbing with righteous indignation; Representative Brewster bluntly declared that Presidential Agent Thomas G. Corcoran had approached him just before the teller vote, threatened to stop construction on Passamaquoddy Dam unless he voted for the "death sentence." Inference was that his prompt vote against it had been a righteous protest against such a flagrantly unrighteous threat...
Representative Brewster sat down directly across the table from Chairman O'Connor and, with many a nervous grimace, proceeded to tell his story. In his pursuit of the Quoddy millions, said he, he had been vastly aided by Mr. Corcoran, government agent delegated to smooth the dam's legal pathway. In return he had listened sympathetically to Mr. Corcoran's earnest pleas for his support of the Public Utility Bill. But the bill was so drastic, so complex, that he had been unable to make up his mind until Mr. Corcoran threatened him just before the vote...
Meantime Messrs. Corcoran and Brewster were working hand in glove for Passamaquoddy. Two fears beset legal Agent Corcoran, he explained. One was that the Power interests, through their Republican allies, might bring nuisance suits to check construction after the dam was started. The other was that, once completed, the dam would become another Muscle Shoals which the Federal Government would lack power to operate. Therefore he felt obliged to postpone construction until Maine's Legislature should create a State Power Authority to build and operate the dam in the Federal Government's behalf. Only on Representative Brewster...
...Refusing TVA's request for legalized control over all dam building in the Tennessee basin, a power which under existing law it had exercised merely by the "land shark" practice of buying up little parcels of land where Aluminum Co. of America was trying to purchase reservoir sites...