Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Surging through the giant turbines of Boulder Dam, the Colorado River can now produce 1,240,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy per year which is piped 267 miles to Los Angeles over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...
...Having signed the second deficiency bill appropriating $82,000,000, chiefly for TVA, and authorizing that body to start work on a new $112,000,000 dam at Gilbertsville, Ky., Franklin Roosevelt last week packed himself off to spend Memorial Day with his mother at Hyde Park, his first visit with her in four months...
...Economy were glaringly highlighted. Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, a recent convert to Economy, managed to persuade the Senate, which was supposed to be paring down the $83,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill, to authorize and make the initial appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been one of the hottest champions of Economy, grew livid last week when he learned that the House Appropriations Committee...
Westergaard came to Harvard only last September from the University of Illinois. He has served as a technical expert for the federal government on many construction projects including the Boulder Dam...
From 1916 on he had been on the faculty of the University of Illinois where he was professor of theoretical and applied mechanics. He acted as adviser for the United States Bureau of Reclamation in the building of Boulder Dam, and for other government bureaus in road and dam construction...