Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...builders of Hoover Dam will spend 50,000,000 Federal dollars in and around Las Vegas, Nev. in the next eight years. In anticipation of this flood of cash, the little desert town, main-line rail base for the construction camps, has been swelling and swelling like a toadstool. Real estate has boomed, collapsed, boomed again. Night clubs opened up with show girls from Los Angeles. Speakeasies flourished, for Nevada has no dry law. Gambling resorts blossomed legally. Dam workers were to be separated from their pay checks as pleasantly as possible...
...this growth and commotion at Las Vegas the Federal Government eyed with stern disfavor. It was decided that Hoover Dam shall be built in a moral atmosphere. Therefore from Washington last week went forth secret orders which sent half a hundred Prohibition agents under Col. George Seavers of San Francisco swooping down upon Las Vegas. Twenty-five night clubs, saloons and roadhouses were raided. Lakes of liquor were seized, five breweries put out of commission. Fire threatened the business district when enthusiastic agents ignited a great stack of mash barrels. Arrested were 80 bootleggers, bartenders, speakeasy proprietors, girl entertainers. After...
...going to make this place safe for Hoover Dam workers...
Angry Arizona lost its big and probably ' final chance to block construction of Hoover (Boulder) Dam last week. The Supreme Court dismissed Arizona's suit to enjoin California, Utah, Nevada, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and the Federal Government from undertaking this enterprise as a trespass on its sovereign rights (TIME, Oct. 27). Ruling that Arizona's rights were not injured by the project, Mr. Justice Brandeis declared: ''As the Colorado River is navigable and the means which the act provides are not unrelated to the control of navigation, the erection and maintenance of such...
...Derby, Conn., 10 mi. west of New Haven, the Housatonic River runs into a wide curve above a mill dam. Two miles above the dam, three crews last week waited for the start of the Carnegie Cup race. In the Yale boat, as the result of the latest of many shifts by Irascible Coach Ed Leader, Dave Manuel sat at the No. 6 slide in place of James Gamble Rogers Jr., the architect's son and varsity captain who had occupied it for two years. The Cornell boat, almost unchanged from the one which won the Poughkeepsie Regatta against...