Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Robert Ridgeway past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers and member of the Colorado River Hearst, will give an illustrated lecture on "Boulder Dam" this evening at 7 o'clock in Pierre 110. All members of the University are welcome...
...Curtiss James drove the golden spike near Bieber, Calif, in a 200-mi. link between his Western Pacific in California and Great Northern in Oregon (TIME, Nov. 16, 1931). Only new mileage now projected is a 28-mi. Great Northern spur to the site of the proposed Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, a 14-mi. line planned by U. S. Army engineers between Wiota and the Fort Peck dam in Montana...
...than he could handle; like Mr. Krueger, he suffered from a continual embarras de richesses, and was, in boom times, hard put to it in his effort to use the money which flowed into his hands. To this difficulty Mr. Insull was, however, equal; there was the Colorado River Dam, and the pyrrhic battle with Cyrus Eaton: The difficulty to which he was unequal was that of liquidation. As an expert in money and banking, Mr. Insull knew that liquidation, on a large scale, is a witless feat which no one who lends money has a right to expect...
...capital with the capital of Browning-firearms heirs to start the First Security system which operated 28 banks (now consolidated into twelve) in Utah, Idaho, Wyoming. He became vice president and treasurer of Amalgamated Sugar Co. and headed a construction company which got a big job out of Hoover Dam.* Last week, aged 43, Marriner Eccles came to the Treasury as special assistant to Secretary Morgenthau-to advise him how to finance the greatest peacetime deficit. But Earle Bailie, forced to resign that ticklish job because of Senatorial objections to his Wall Street connections (TIME, Jan. 15), stayed on long...
...come to cherish, is the projected hydro-electric power development on the St. Lawrence in New York State. The President prodded the matter along last week by urging the Senate to pass the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Deep Waterway Treaty with Canada, necessary preliminary step before any dam can be built...