Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carrying out a course of research begun three years ago party of investigators from the Business School fstigue laboratory, under the direction of D. B. Dill, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry, spent six weeks last summer in field work at the Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada. The party was interested particularly in the effect on workmen of conditions of intense heat and high humidity...
...Panama Canal Zone, where conditions of high temperature and great humidity prevail. This year Boulder City was chosen because of the high temperatures whish had been reported there the are the humidity, and the led opportunity for studying the effect of these conditions on the workmen assembled at Hoover Dam...
...blood occurred. It was found that in general a large exchange of moisture failed to have any marked effect on the workmen, provided their diet contained sufficient water and a generous amount of salt. Because of less intense heat and more attention to diet, hept prostrations at the dam were considerably reduced this year, but those which occurred were studied carefully by the Harvard experts...
...voted for: Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922); Hawley-Smoot Tariff (1930); Bonus (1924, 1932); Tax reduction (1924, 1929): Tax lipping (1932); Equalization Fee (1928); Federal Farm Board (1929); Boulder Dam (1928); 15-Cruiser Bill (1929): Government operation of Muscle Shoals (1931): War Debt Moratorium (1931), "Lame Duck" Constitutional Amendment (1932); Sales Tax (1932): Beer tax for relief (1932); Borah currency inflation plan...
...shared the orators' bouquets: tall, bearded Professor Alexander Winter, chief Soviet engineer, and Col. Hugh Lincoln Cooper of Manhattan who collaborated on the design and has worked on the dam almost since its inception. Under his orders all the turbines were installed, most of the concrete poured, and the job finished eight months ahead of the contracted time limit. To him went a special honor, the Order of the Red Star, highest Soviet decoration, never before bestowed on a foreigner. Said Col. Cooper...