Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Denverites the 41-year-old Castlewood Dam, 30 mi. back in the hills above the city, has been a blessing and a menace. It provided a huge irrigation reservoir three miles square. It checked the occasional rampages of Cherry Creek, the historic stream which sluices between concrete embankments through the heart of the city to empty into the South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak...
...clock the torrent began to dr,am away. By afternoon it was quiet. Because of the warnings flashed out by Operator Nettie Driscoll and by Hugh Paine, caretaker of the dam, thousands of slumbering Denverites had escaped death. Only two were killed, five reported missing. Property damage exceeded $1,000,000, would have been greater but for the city ordinance that requires all Denver houses to be built of stone, brick, tile or concrete...
...stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business man, a factory worker and a woman "walking hand in hand in a common determination.'' ¶A start on the great Columbia River Basin project was assured when the President approved construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington out of public works funds. Originally the dam was to be 300 ft. high with a hydroelectric capacity of 1,000,000 h.p. Because no market existed for so much power, modified specifications call for a 130-ft. dam costing $63,000,000. Also put on the public...
...brief, and the world of letters will not pause long to honor one who was heard but not heeded. With the loss of his penetrating criticism, there will undoubtedly be a new flow of shallow carping by the second-rate "genius" which has long been embarrassed by the dam of sound appraisal he so carefully built up. It may be that what he took for senile decadence in the political and literary life of world, especially of America, represents only the growing-pains of a new adolescence. But he would have been a stubborn man indeed who would have argued...
...Economist Frank W. Taussig; Lawyer Paul D. Cravath, a Russian recognitionist; President James D. Mooney of General Motors Export Co., whose trading field is the world at large; Dean Roscoe Pound of Harvard Law School, a liberal of the first water; Engineer Hugh L. Cooper who built the Dnieprostroy Dam for U. S. S. R. Modestly buried away in the middle of the committee list was the name of its chairman and sponsor-Curtis...