Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Work on Boulder Dam, world's highest (727 ft.), was ready to start last week. Congress had appropriated $10,660,000 to get the $165,000,000 project under way. Secretary of the Interior Wilbur approved a construction order which was telegraphed to Las Vegas, Nev., where Walker R. Young, resident U. S. engineer, received it. Said Secretary Wilbur: "With dollars, men and engineering brains we will build a great natural resource . . . make new geography . . . start a new era ... conquer the Great American Desert. To bring about this transformation requires a dam higher than any the engineer has hitherto conceived...
Great was the excitement at Las Vegas (pop. 5,177) as work was about to start. The town suffered a premature land boom two years ago when the Boulder Dam Bill was signed. Houses were erected but no tenants arrived. Today ample quarters exist there for workmen and their families...
...bill to expend $144,881,902 for future dam-building, lock-building and channel-dredging last week lay on the desk of the U. S. President who answered "Engineer" to the census occupation-query and who last autumn promised his countrymen just such busy-beaverish legislation (TIME, Nov. 4). At home with this measure above all others, he signed it. Then he said: "It was with particular satisfaction that I signed the Rivers & Harbors bill as it represents the final authorization of the engineering work . . . I have advocated for over five years...
...voted for: Restrictive Immigration (1923), Tax Reduction (1924), Boulder Dam (1928), Farm Relief (1929), Jones ("Five & Ten") act (1929), Reapportionment...
...second to reach the finish line but the first entirely across it. That started an argument which could not be settled until, last week, they lined up again, their engines roaring and their stovepipe smokestacks belching smoke black as ink, 50 ft. behind the starting line at Fernbank dam, twelve miles below Cincinnati. A small cannon boomed; both started for the line, the Tom Greene accelerating with the quick pick-up that has made river-people call her "Hopping Tom." Nailed firmly on the front of the wheelhouse of the ''Hopping Tom," where stood young Capt. Tom Greene...