Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences have been sent to direct excavation work for C. W. A. projects. Frank L. Thomas 1G, and Kenneth B. Disher 1G, have been sent to the Tennessee Valley where archeological sites are soon to be flooded by dam construction and therefore be unavailable for further archeological investigation. Gene M. Stirling 3G, and Erik K. Reed 3G, are stationed in Florida. It is expected that still more men will answer the Government's call for archeological authorities for this work...
...hang out his shingle. In another four years he was directing the Democratic campaign which made Mrs. Nellie Tayloe Ross (now Director of the U. S. Mint) Wyoming's Governor. Finally, a Democratic Na tional Committeeman, he lobbied in Washington for Wyoming's gigantic Casper-Alcova Dam project which was finally approved last summer by Presi dent Roosevelt (TIME, Aug. 7). As Postmaster General Farley's No. 1 assistant, Joe O'Mahoney had the Presi dent's ear. Now that he is in the Senate his friends expect him to take his place among...
...Billingsley Hill of Waterville, Wash. Democrat Hill, who got to Congress in 1923 by plumping for the soldier bonus and promising to "soak the rich," is not so radical as he sounded ten years ago. Today he is even rated as a "conservative with progressive leanings." The Grand Coulee Dam in Washington and the Hill Bill to boost tariffs to compensate for depreciated foreign currencies have been his most noted concerns...
...plate for a dinner which included Beluga Caviar spread thin on toast.† Borsch (beet soup) and Filet of Beef Stroganoff. Guest Litvinoff said that Host Cooper's services "are already inscribed in the geography of the Soviet Union and endure in the concrete of Dnieprostroy" Dam, but he singled out as "probably the oldest friend of the Soviet Union in America" none other than that dramatic victim of amnesia, Col. Raymond Robins who wandered off among the mountains of North Carolina while en route to visit President Hoover (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932, et seq.). In Russia, where...
...fair estimate is that 25% of the investment in power houses and transmission lines is idle and is piling up fixed charges. . . ." He further recognized that the nation's power surplusage would soon be increased by Federal and State power projects at Muscle Shoals, Cove Creek, Boulder Dam, Bonneville Dam (Ore.), Grand Coulee Dam (Wash...