Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heat. When he left his air-cooled railroad car at Glasgow, Mont, to drive 30 dusty miles to the Fort Peck Dam and address 10,000 people, the thermometer stood at 112° in the sun. At Devils Lake, N. Dak., before 9 in the morning while the crowd waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet...
Once ashore, President Roosevelt plunged into the business of pointing the finger of publicity at the concrete results of New Deal spending: the $31,000,000 hydroelectric and navigation dam at Bonneville on the Columbia River 40 miles above Portland; the $63,000,000 hydro-electric Grand Coulee Dam where the Columbia flows through the barren hills of central Washington; the $62,000,000 flood control dam at Fort Peck in Montana on the upper Missouri; the $65,000,000 dam at Devils Lake in North Dakota. By word and deed the President was determined to make the nation "dam...
...profit margins on Electric Home & Farm Authority lines. Ice and fuel dealers, whose business is threatened with extinction, are up in arms. The American Federation of Labor is bitter against the trade schools which TV A Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan, president of Antioch (Work-&-Study) College, established for Norris Dam laborers. Businessmen, big & little, view with alarm the growing powers of Director Lilienthal in his southern satrapy...
...closing days of the 1928 first Congressional session he filibustered mightily against passage of the bill to construct Boulder Dam on the theory that populous California would not pay arid and thinly settled Arizona a fair share for water diverted from the Colorado River. He was bitterly disappointed when the bill passed at the next session. Like many another frontier politician, he dreams of U. S. territorial expansion: three years ago he lustily campaigned for U. S. acquisition of Lower California and a slice of Sonora to straighten out Arizona's southern boundary...
...afternoon. 200 miles from Asheville, the three ladies hung in a wooden cage 400 ft. in air looking down on the Clinch River. With them was Dr. Arthur Ernest Morgan, chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority, pointing out the foundations of the 253 ft.. $34,000,000 Norris dam. "It is most thrilling!' Mrs. Roosevelt exclaimed, "a great deal like riding in an airplane.'' After a two hour inspection of a dozen electric-gadgeted brick and frame houses in the new town of Norris, she went to one of the construction camps and made a speech: ''The Government...