Word: dams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Farm relief was urged-a revolving loan fund to help market surpluses; more research work, especially by the States. The Coolidge desires to see more railroad mergers and to get the government entirely out of the shipping business were re-expressed. There were flat pronouncements for building the Boulder Dam and against the government's handling the electric by-product "as private enterprise can very well fill this field." Again let the Muscle Shoals power and nitrate plants be leased, urged the President...
Ahead of them stretches a flexible program. Nine apropriations bills must be passed before March 4 to finance the governmental machine after July 1. Boulder dam, 15 new cruisers for the Navy, the Kellogg anti-war treaty-these are the Senate's immediate job. In the House is gossip of a rivers and harbors bill, of reapportionment. Farm relief casts a streaky shadow of uncertainty across all plans and farther in the background lurks tariff revision...
Argument in the Southwest has arisen bitterly and often over the subject Governor Hunt and Mr. Colter had been discussing-the Swing-Johnson bill, pending these several years in Congress, for the construction by the U. S. of a 550-ft., $125,000,000 power and irrigation dam (world's highest) in Black Canyon on the Colorado River. Mostly, the arguments have seen Arizonans pitted against sons of the six other States drained by the Colorado-Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, California. These have united behind California's Representative Philip David Swing and Senator Hiram Johnson...
This last was the list of exceptions reserved by Nominee Hoover to cover such "local instances," and vexed political issues, as the Muscle Shoals project in Alabama and the Boulder Dam project on the Colorado River...
Last March, by act of God and the frailty of human works, 350 persons were killed when the St. Francis dam in Ventura county, Calif., burst. Last week, the city of Los Angeles and the county of Ventura, basing the value of life upon the earning power of the dead, made settlements to heirs of between $11,000 and $20,000 per victim. Some heirs, dissatisfied, were suing for as high as $100,000 per adult victim, $35,000 per child victim. A firm of Stockton lawyers was asking one-third of these sums for handling the suits...