Word: dams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lebanon, where work would be over at 4 p.m. and no one would have to ride home on a sub way. Grateful, 75% of Ulen employees accepted the offer, made Lebanon the Ulen capital. But not midwestern are Ulen & Co. activities: Ulen engineers today are work ing upon three dams in Chile, a $23,000,000 land-reclamation project in northern Greece, the construction of Persia's only trunk-line railroad, and the operation of Brazilian public utilities. Monumental Ulen works are the Shandaken Tunnel through the Catskills (longest - 18 mi. - - hydraulic tunnel in the world, five miles longer...
...Farm Relief (1929), the Tariff (1922, 1929), the Navy's 15-Cruiser bill (1929), Reapportionment (1929), Immigration Restriction (1923). He voted against: The Soldier Bonus (1924), the 18th Amendment (1918), the Volstead Act (1919), the Jones ("Five & Ten") Law (1929), Farm Relief (1927, 1928), Boulder Dam...
...Rain-flooded creeks rose menacingly around Smackover last week, did a million dollars dam age to surrounding oil fields. Its city hall be came relief headquarters. Measles developed in its refugee camp. A woman bore a child while floating downstream on a raft. The Red river raged with high water. An Arkansas tornado snorted through Elaine, left 17 dead behind...
...Boulder Dam, as a power-and-flood project, moved a long notch toward reality last week when President Hoover asked Congress to make an initial appropriation of $10,600,000 to commence construction at Black Canyon on the Colorado river...
...Angeles, of the Metropolitan Water District and of Southern California Edison Co., signed contracts with the U. S. for 57% of the 650,000 horsepower to be generated. Over 50 years they will pay the U. S. as rental a sum equal to the cost of the dam ($165,000,000) plus 4%. The Government will erect the $21,000,000 power plant at the dam (TIME, Feb. 10). Under the law no work could begin until the U. S. had these power contracts guaranteeing reimbursement of the investment cost...