Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dams: 1) The Dnieprostroy, Soviet Russia's much-dramatized dam on the Dnieper River, which will give 70,000 sq. mi. of Russia their electric muscles. 2) The Lloyd Barrage on the River Indus which will send webs of water over six million acres of India. 3) The Alexander Dam on Kauai Island, Hawaii, noteworthy for advanced design, not bigness...
...Hoover Dam in Arizona...
...Madden Dam in the Panama Canal Zone...
Married. Ralph De Palma, 49, automobile racing driver; and one Marian Leggett, 36; in Las Vegas, Nev. Honeymoon: seeking a job for him on Hoover Dam. Married, Sylvia ("Madame") Ulback, 51, Hollywood masseuse, author of gossipy Hollywood Undressed; and Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry...
...built. Manual labor, undirected by science invention and management would have hardly built huts to keep out the weather and would today make playthings out of the factories and bonfires out the schools. Manual labor has been a ready to waste itself for years in building pyramids as to dam the Nile. It is direction from the mind that has built granaries rather than graves. . . . This is as sure as that a million cows would not ot themselves feed a single human child...