Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...California, $5,593,226,600. Contribution to Cost of State Government. Northern California, 40%; Southern California 60%. High State and U. S. officeholders. Northern California, 130; Southern California, 57. Governor Young started the campaign with the support of Senator Hiram Johnson. He claimed credit (with the Senator) for Boulder Dam. Candidate Fitts taunted Governor Young with reminders of the anti-Hoover attitude of Senator Johnson, insisted that he (Fitts) was the only "100% Hoover man" in the race. This caused Governor Young to declare for President Hoover's renomination in 1932. Whereupon the Johnson forces promptly turned cold...
...full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras Taffari to dam Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile, to build Abyssinian highways...
...this sum was $208,692,465.12 more than the 70th Congress had appropriated for the last fiscal year, but argued that the in- creases were all for worthy causes. Major increases over 1930: Farm relief, $101,900,000; rivers & harbors, $21,600,000; public buildings, $20,000,000; Boulder Dam, $10,660,000; public roads, $37,400,-ooo. Declared Congressman Wood: "The Republican Party [is] anxious and proud to place before the American people the constructive, honest and efficient fiscal record it has made. . . . This record and the traditional capacity of the Republican Party to provide efficient and sane management...
...dam will be built at Black Canyon on the Colorado River, 30 mi. from Las Vegas. Construction job No. 1: A $2,500,000 branch railroad from Las Vegas on the Union Pacific to the dam site. The U. P. is ready to build the first 22 miles of this track, but declines to undertake the last eight miles up back-breaking mountain grades. Construction job No. 2: A $525,000 town at the dam site to house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river...
Chief Engineer of Boulder Dam is Raymond F. Walter of the Reclamation Service. Born in Chicago 57 years ago, he was named Arthur Raymond Walter. Aged 5, he migrated with his father, a printer, in a covered wagon to the Leadville, Col., gold rush, drifted from one boom town to the next. As a boy he dropped the Arthur from his name, inserted a meaningless initial F. He learned civil engineering at Colorado Agricultural College (1893), surveyed Cameron Pass over the Great Divide, has done much irrigation work. He entered the U. S. Reclamation Service in 1902, rose...