Word: dams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...resolution for a survey of Boulder Dam...
...through an all-night filibuster on the Boulder Dam bill; laid it over as first unfinished business of the Senate next session (see below...
...Passed a resolution instructing the Secretary of the Interior to have the Boulder Dam project surveyed anew and report next autumn; sent the resolution to the House...
...Passed the Senate's resolution for a survey of the Boulder Dam project before Congress convenes again next December. The resolution went to the President. C. Passed a resolution to empower a committee of five House members to investigate campaign funds. C Adjourned sine...
Whether or not it is ever built to dam water, the proposed 675-ft. Federal power and irrigation dam in the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River has already backed up an enormous supply of attention, irrigated the U. S. with rushing streams of propaganda and oratory, generated powerful currents of controversy. The purposes for which the actual dam is proposed...