Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then there this question of literature. There's "Vile Bodies" by Waugh, a book with the real smell of the earth in it. Or was it that Dam sun-like book about china? Amusing stuff, earth. Then there are post-war novels, thrilling they are, every hundred of them. Did Hemingway write "A Farewell to Arms" for nothing? Now there's a question. When America started there were people like Washington, Adams, and Jefferson around. Are they around now? Nope. Still, its pretty exciting...
...Walker of New York to give his firemen an eight-hour day. But others were more significant, indicated that Labor might be getting its back up. Harshly condemned for "inhuman working conditions" and referred to as "a $700.- 000,000 outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, turned its back on a Federal Dole, one Labor measure advocated by the delegates seemed...
Died. William H. Wattis, president of Six Companies Inc., the syndicate which is building Hoover Dam; of cancer; in San Francisco...
...litter requirements are fulfilled, individual pups must, nonetheless, be registered as heretofore ($2 each within 18 mos. after birth, $4 thereafter). The dam's owner may make the individual registrations as "first owner," or the pup purchaser as the ''second owner." No one else may register...
...Arietta Game Preserve in northern New York, a keeper tied a clothes line to a black cherry tree. A beaver wanted the tree for a dam, chewed it close to the ground, dragged it as far as the line permitted. Then, instead of biting off the line, as it could have done with one chop of its four big flat front teeth, the beaver gnawed through the tree twice more, once just above the rope girdle, then just below: carried the two tree sections away, left the tethered bit behind...