Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boulder Dam on the Colorado River is the world's biggest dam, but the Grand Coulee project on the Columbia River will be much bigger. This mighty barrier in the wild heart of Washington, 92 miles west of Spokane, will be not only the world's greatest but the costliest engineering job ever undertaken by man. The dam, power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long...
...present tide ebbs, the level of marks would automatically equate with the curve. But if the improvement should prove permanent Professor Holcombe could then consider changing the course standards to preserve the indubitable advantage of having a scientific curve of distribution. But any arbitrary attempt attempt to dam the tide of rising marks now will rightly loose a flood of complaints on the Professor's head...
...branch line after all, but with it, his unpleasant prophecy started to come true. The railroad made Jefferson's tributary back country independent of the port. That same year (1873) Government engineers decided Big Cypress Bayou was flooding farms and villages in the sandy lowlands, dynamited the natural dam which had backed the bayou up toward Jefferson, thus put the city's docks out of commission, ended its water commerce with Shreveport and New Orleans...
...This had the force of a ukase from the Tsar, and for years "electricity" used to be a magic word in Soviet Russia, orators telling everyone as Lenin did that "Electrification, plus the Soviet Power, equals Socialism!" This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received a reputed $125,000 in cash, had a onetime chef-to-the-Tsar cook his meals and also enjoyed a private car. Today...
Married. Helene Emma Madison, 24, famed free-style swimmer, 1932 Olympic champion in the 100-and 400-metre races; and Luther C. Mclvor, builder of Wenatchee, Wash.'s Rock Island Dam; at Wenatchee. Breaker of many records before she turned professional in 1932, Swimmer Madison made a film in Hollywood (The Warrior's Husband), went home to Seattle disillusioned, sold hot dogs to pay her way through nursing school...