Word: damming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voted for Reapportionment (1929), the Navy's is-cruiser Bill (1929), Radio Control (1928), Boulder Dam (1928), Tax Reduction (1922, 1924, 1926, 1928, 1930), Farm Relief...
President Hoover himself was not so apprehensive. He sent his predecessor a telegram asking him to dedicate the $6,000,000 Coolidge Dam on the Gila River in Arizona. Mr. Coolidge did not. promptly accept. The Hoover message was the first personal communication between the two men, as far as is known, since Mr. Coolidge turned his office over to Mr. Hoover a year...
Warned Nebraska's Senator Norris last week: "Under that [Finney] decision the Secretary of the Interior is able to nullify the most important provision in the Boulder Dam Bill and give to the power trust every kilowatt of power generated by the expenditure of public money at Boulder Dam...
Water. Arizona, dissatisfied over water rights, has held out from the Boulder Dam compact. Last week at Reno, Nev., water commissioners from the six other interested states* met to evolve a compromise with Arizona, which has threatened otherwise to hamstring the whole development by prolonged litigation. At this Reno conference, California made new concessions to Arizona...
Meanwhile nothing has been done at Boulder Canyon. The dam's actual construction will probably be under the joint supervision of the army engineers and the Interior Department's reclamation service. Thirty miles of railroad must first be laid through a desolate rock-strewn wilderness and a town for 6,000 workmen built on the brink of the gorge. The prospect of Boulder Dam brought land booms at Las Vegas, Nev. and Kingman, Ariz. But so slow has the government been in getting started that these have mostly collapsed. Last week a gold strike outside Kingman made speculators...