Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hoover Dam...
...attention has been called to your issue of Oct. 27, p. 19, where, in a footnote, you state with reference to the dam to be built pursuant to the Boulder Canyon Project Act, at Black Canyon on the Colorado River, "its legal title remains fixed by the Boulder Canyon Project...
...statement is in error. That Act names the project the Boulder Canyon Project, but this project includes not only a dam in the Colorado River, but the all-American Canal, and incidental works, including a diversion dam, also in the Colorado, and power development structures. The only other title fixed by the Act is that of the "Colorado River Dam Fund," a fund into which Federal advances for the construction of the various parts of the Boulder Canyon Project, including.Hoover Dam, a diversion dam, and All-American Canal, etc., will be made...
...expressly stipulated to be a "supplement to the Reclamation Law." Under the Reclamation Law the Secretary, pursuant to his authority "to do any and all acts as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act," has designated by his own order the name of the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona, the Elephant Butte Dam in New Mexico, and the Shoshone Dam in Wyoming...
...Light Co., member of the Electric Bond & Share group. In return, PRC will be given a large block of National Power & Light stock, the size of which remains undisclosed.* Included in this deal is a power site at Herndon, Pa. on the Susquehanna, where a 1,000,000 horsepower dam is contemplated. Important clause in the agreement is a long-term contract by which PRC will obtain its power from Pennsylvania Power & Light which, in turn, will buy anthracite from...