Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hoover's Dam...
TIME usually well-informed makes two erroneous statements in its report of the Las Vegas, Nev. Boulder Dam celebration. In your issue of Sept. 29 you quote Secretary Wilbur saying, "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer who really started this greatest project of all time, the Hoover Dam." If the Secretary said that he was mistaken. Arthur Powell Davis, then U. S. Commissioner of Reclamation, was the man who started the engineering investigations and made the first report urging a government-built dam in Boulder Canyon. Senator Hiram Johnson and Representative Phil Swing...
...yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building the $165,000,000 Boulder Canyon dam. Three thousand Southwest officials and others heard the Secretary exclaim: "I have the honor to name this dam after a great engineer, who really started this greatest project of all time-the Hoover Dam!"- Then all trooped back to Las Vegas. There they saw scenes reminiscent of the frontier days when the first...
...November 1921, as Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover brought together commissioners from the seven affected States, got them to sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam...
...Briand. Like one of those teetering round-bottomed toys called a "Bob-up" (feminine "Susy Dam," neuter "Be-ba-bo"), French Foreign Minister Aristide Briand bobbed up next morning, professing to see no rebuke to France in "Uncle Arthur's" speech. Of course France favors Disarmament, he smoothly observed, pointed to a passage in his own speech preceding Mr. Henderson's. He had said that Security must precede Disarmament, added that France has "notably reduced" her armaments on the basis of the partial security, she has already achieved, concluded loudly...