Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan at the India Freedom Foundation, President Sailendra Nath Ghose of the Indian National Congress of America affirms that St. Gandhi is not tuberculous, brands all such rumors as ridiculous.-ED. Hoover Dam Silt Sirs...
...have been a reader of your publication for some time and have a keen appreciation of your outlook on national problems. I have just been talking to a man who has been on the job at "Boulder [Hoover] Dam." His contention is as follows...
Though they will spend their money and playtime at Las Vegas, Hoover Dam workmen will live at Boulder City, a construction village being built for them 31 mi. away at the dam site.* Last week in Washington steps were taken to fix the moral tone of Boulder City, make it a "model town." Appointed by Secretary of the Interior Wilbur to manage the land leasing on this government reservation was Louis C. Cramton, onetime (1913-31) Michigan Congressman, ardent Prohibitor. At Boulder City, Mr. Cramton announced, only two competing businesses of the same type would be permitted, and leases would...
...construction contract for Hoover Dam began to run last week. Six Companies, Inc. have 2,635 days to finish the job, after which they must pay the U. S. a penalty of $3,000 per day for any tardiness...
...Although Secretary Wilbur changed the name of the dam from Boulder to Hoover, the construction centre did not become Hoover City...