Word: damming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight productive years as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge (he promoted arbitration rather than litigation in trade disputes, achieved standardization of some 3,000 industrial products, championed modernization of railroads and such huge river-control projects as Hoover Dam), Hoover repeatedly warned against "the rising boom and orgy of speculation." He complained that loose monetary policies of the Federal Reserve Board would lead to an "inevitable collapse which will bring the greatest calamities upon our farmers, our workers and legitimate business." But amid Coolidge prosperity, Hoover was denounced as "a crapehanger...
...just lately," said Editor William Calhoun Baggs of the Miami News, "it's been lean times for our front page. Our lead story one day last week was something like FHA FORECLOSURES AT NEW HIGH. Well, that was the way it was. Then, all of a sudden, the dam broke." Into the Miami News, and into newsrooms all over the U.S., spilled one of the heaviest torrents of big stories ever to tax the resources of the press...
...seems that the long dry spell in the Boston area has left the Charles low and relatively stagnant. At the same time, salt water has been coming in through the dam at the mouth of the river. Since the salt water is heavier, it sinks to the bottom, preventing the normal turnover of the river...
...workers: New Yorkers Michael Schwerner, 24, and Andrew Goodman, 20, and Meridian, Miss., Negro James Chaney, 21. The three disappeared on June 21 after Cecil Price arrested them near Philadelphia on a charge of speeding. Six weeks later their bodies were dug up from a nearby farmer's dam; all had been shot to death...
...filling in of the Charles will not be begun until the completion of the Charles River Dam, which will be started next year. No part of the river can be filled in until the dam is finished because of present flood control regulations...