Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...them in basins for the news cameras and spent his first few days in office making sure his son Joseph had everything under control at the Heil Co. plant in Milwaukee. With his right hand still bandaged he pressed a button opening Wisconsin Public Service Corp.'s new dam near Merrill, Wis. and sat down to a beanfeast with 275 Midwest utilitarians. Then he made a speech which sounded new indeed coming from a Governor of Wisconsin: he admonished the Public Service Commissioners present to "be fair to industry, that the men & women who have money invested may gain...
White politicians in 16 Southern States that lack Negro professional schools, expecting this burst dam to bring a flood of applications from Negroes for admittance to whites' schools, sputtered and fumed. None was more vehement, however, than Kentucky-born Justice James McReynolds, who wrote a dissenting opinion (Minnesota-born Justice Pierce Butler concurring). Stormed Justice McReynolds: "I presume Missouri may . . . break down the settled practice concerning separate schools and thereby, as indicated by experience, damnify both races...
...intake is at Parker Dam on the Colorado River, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam. Five pumping stations raise the stream high enough to get over or through the mountains. Downhill gravity flow takes care of most of the route. There are 38 tunnels totaling 108 miles...
...Warm Springs, Ga. for ten days or more went Franklin Roosevelt, detoured to Chattanooga to inspect TVA's Chickamauga Dam. Twenty-one drunks were let out of jail...
...pious, highly literate city of Columbus, Ohio, enough Sunday newspapers were printed last week to build a dam of comics, features and news across the Olentangy River. A phenomenon in modern U. S. journalism had taken place: two new full-size Sunday newspapers were started on the same day in the same city...