Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ever since summer crops have been cultivated in the Nile valley, it has been found necessary to conserve the water during the flood season. The source of the Blue Nile, or Lake Tana, is generally agreed to be the place best suited for a dam site. With just such a dam in mind, England has made a recent treaty with Ethiopia stating that neither government could alter the water supply without the consent of the other. As no treaty exists between England and Italy, it is evident that the fate of the Nile valley would rest entirely with the Italians...
...Presidential party rolled into the yards at Boulder City, Nev. at cock crow. After breakfast all hands turned out for an inspection of huge Boulder Dam, which Herbert Hoover had started but which Franklin Roosevelt had helped along with a $38,000,000 PWA grant and was now about to dedicate...
...Address No. 2, the President was out to defend Federal spending for Public Works and the principle of Government-in-the-power-business, two more issues he has presented to his 1936 Republican opponents. After paying homage to the dam's 726-ft. height, its 115-mi. lake, its potential 1,835,000 h. p. of electrical energy, he declared...
...have had a great program of public improvements, and in these past two years all that we have done has been to accelerate that program. . . . No sensible person is foolish enough to draw hard and fast classifications as to the usefulness or need. Obviously, for instance, this great Boulder Dam warrants universal approval because it will prevent floods and flood damage, because it will irrigate thousands of acres of tillable land and because it will generate electricity to run the wheels of many factories and illuminate countless homes. But can we say that a five-foot brushwood dam across...
After the dam ceremony, while motoring to Las Vegas, Nev. to re-entrain for the coast, Senator Pittman suggested driving up nearby Mount Charleston. The gravel road, just built by CCCsters, winds around sheer shoulders with room for only one car. Ten miles up there was a hair-raising moment as the President's car was turned around, with the President in it and only a foot to separate him from a yawning precipice...