Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twelve miles southeast of Hot Springs, Ark. on the Ouachita River is a power dam. Behind the dam is a good-sized lake. In the lake is an island and on the island is Couchwood, summer home of Harvey Crowley Couch. Mr. Couch built not only the rambling redwood log cabin that accommodates 25 guests in every luxury but also the dam that made the lake. The lake he named after his daughter Catherine; the dam, which he built for his Arkansas Light & Power Co., he named after onetime State Republican Boss Remmel...
...concrete highway he rode five miles up the Clinch River valley. Soon he was standing on a bluff above the Norris damsite. More than 300 ft. below, the clang of machinery could be heard as great buckets of concrete slid across a cable line, slopped into the dam's coffers...
...years ago the President visited the spot with Senator George Norris, assured him that his Federal power dream was going to come true. Last week, with the dam a third completed, the President turned to TVA Chairman Arthur E. Morgan to exult: "It's great stuff, isn't it!" Dr. Morgan remarked that the lake behind the dam will have an 800-mi. shoreline. "If we start to rent cottage sites along the shoreline we'll make a fortune," joshed the President. Down the bluff they drove to see some workers, whom President Roosevelt addressed as future...
Next stop was Town Creek, Ala., and Joe Wheeler Dam. So full was the President of the TVA sights he had seen that by the time he reached Tupelo, Miss., he was moved to make an extemporaneous speech. Extolling the local citizenry for being the first to sign a contract for cheap TVA electricity for its municipal power system, the President observed...
...present, the men take turns with the hammer. The hammer drives planks, which form the walls of the dam, deep into the stream bed. The driver sees that the planks maintain their position under water, and the rowboat serves the diver and all others who fall into the river...