Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unit went into operation when Safe Harbor Water Power Corp. started its first generator, began to deliver power to Baltimore. Safe Harbor, Pa. got its name many years ago when the mouth of Conestoga Creek offered shelter to Susquehanna flat boats. In 1929, when work began on Safe Harbor dam, it was a quiet village. Little work had been done when the stock-market crashed in November but construction went on at a faster pace. The company's bankers, Aldred & Co. of New York, supplied money to Arundel Corp., construction engineers, whenever they wanted it. The engineers bought materials...
...debut of Safe Harbor brought some comfort in a time of trial over the affairs of Gillette Safety Razor Co.* In 1909 John Aldred came down from Canada to be receiver for McCall Ferry Power Co. Under his direction it was reorganized as Pennsylvania Water & Power Co. A big dam at Holtwood, Pa. was completed and began supplying power to Consolidated Co. of Baltimore. In the 15 years which followed Banker Aldred & partners watched the growing industrial life of the district, quietly bought up the property around Safe Harbor, gained control of Consolidated Co. Most important item for any hydro...
...dragon will crawl across future maps of Missouri. Its head will be at Bagnell, in the central part of the State. Its tail and claws will twist 129 mi. westward. It will be labelled Lake of the Ozarks, largest artificial lake in the world, created by a dam across the Osage River built by Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual...
...photographs range from one-man shots to the greatest dam in the world. The selection includes not too many machines, almost enough men. Her pictures confirm the conviction that photography is an art, that she is a photographer of the first hypo...
...Nizam--German Fascist, Indian Ruler, Russian City famed for fairs, African dam...