Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...issue of TIME, your reporter erred in "Townsend Test" article when he states: "Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam...
...Francis Everett Townsend's day as economic savior of the nation is past virtually everywhere but in Chelan, Wash. Chelan, a Main-Street town of 2,000 population, is perched high above the Columbia River, some 90 miles northeast of Grand Coulee Dam. Chelanites depend for their livelihood on seasonal occupation in the fine apple orchards of broad Chelan Valley. In the winter, when there is little work for them in the snow-covered orchards, they are hard pressed. Naturally enough, they readily subscribed to the ideas of Dr. Townsend, formed a Townsend Club soon after his something...
...these things, however, are merely foibles of an unquestionably great man. At the close of his career to which he is so fond of referring, he will leave behind him such monuments as Norris Dam and the 20th Amendment which are far more than most great insurgents, Borah for exle or the late La Follette, leave behind in the way of positive achievement...
...lithographs are by William Woolett and they provide a graphic record of Boulder Dam and other national projects from their conception to completion...
Thirty-five prints are included in the exhibit, forming a record of the construction of the all-American Canal, the Boulder Dam Transmission Line, the Colorado River Aqueduct, and the San Francisco Bridges. These scenes were visited by Woolett over a period of five years, so that the various stages of the project might be sketched...