Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Field work of the Fatigue Laboratory has included research at Boulder Dam, on the problem of curing or preventing heat cramps, as illness which was daily exacting its toll of human life. Previous scientific study had been based upon the premise that all the workers needed was plenty of water. The Fatigue Laboratory's work indicated that, a deficiency of salt caused both sunstroke and heat cramps. A mild amount of salt in the drinking water proved to be of value in preventing the illness, and in extreme cases, intravenous injections of a saline solution were made. Following the work...
...student of tropical diseases, and Ratcliff (Robert Loraine), the genial English visitor, are secret service agents of their respective countries, bent on forestalling the enemy to world peace, Brogard (Siegfried Rumann). The picture winds up to a climax which, played in the power house of a dam, with the turbines screaming and plenty of dynamite on hand, is as thrilling as anything brought to the screen this year...
...business and prevent recovery. By promising to balance the budget in the near future, by assuring industry that the government will not tolerate attempts at domination by labor, by pledging non-partisan distribution of federal funds, and the maintenance of national credit, he can aid in breaking the present dam which is keeping billions of dollars from normal investment. Retracting his oft-repeated thrusts at the banking profession he can bring about that salutary cooperation between government and finance which has been one of the fundamental causes of British recovery...
...irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk of a Hetch Hetchy reservoir. From the wild and inaccessible canyon 3,500 ft. above sea level, water would need no pumping on its course to the city. The knife-gash gorge at its outlet was ideal for damming. Thirty-three years ago this week San Francisco asked the U. S. Department of the Interior for permission to build in Yosemite Park. For a decade successive Secretaries of the Interior backed and filled on the Hetch Hetchy project. President Taft appointed a board of army engineers to study...
...markets they have lately gained. And when the international debate about the future of sterling grew raucous, Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain either lied in his teeth or confirmed the world's worst fears when he said, in effect, that old England gave not a tinker's dam what the value of sterling might be in dollars. Hope of stabilizing the world's currencies in the near future was stifled...