Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineer and 13,000 Russians mining 10,000 tons of asbestos rock daily in Azbest. . . . "The largest construction camp in the world" going full blast at Magnetogorsk on the Capitalist "piece work" system, building what is to be "the greatest steel centre on Earth. ..." A dam three quarters of a mile long across the Ural River completed in four months...
...Engineers busy installing the water passages in Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper's hydroelectric dam at Dnieprostroy. . . . Col. & Mrs. Cooper & friends living on caviar and canned luxuries from the U. S., cooked by a chef who served the Romanovs. . . . Everyone quoting Lenin's axiom: "Electrification plus the Soviet power equals Socialism...
...Hoover (Boulder) Dam he said: "If one State [Arizona] can block the destiny of a region and a watershed . . . a great part of the West's future control of its water will be relinquished...
...absence of any designation by law of the name of this specific feature of the Boulder Canyon Project the Secretary of the Interior had the authority to give it the name of Hoover Dam...
From Kalgan he made his way to Tatung, visited the bat-haunted Imperial Cave Temples of the Wei Dynasty, thence to Saratsi in Suiyuan District to inspect China's greatest irrigation project, a dam being built under the supervision of O. J. Todd, U. S. engineer, to harness the mighty yellow River, "China's Sorrow," and attempt to control its perennial floods...