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Engineer Crowe has changed the physical landscape perhaps more than any other individual in history. Born 61 years ago of American parents in Trenholmville, Quebec, he grew up playing tag across the log jams of Maine's great Ossippe River. By the time he graduated from the University of...
By the time Boulder Dam came along (1931), Frank had a reputation: he was the man who could read blueprints at a glance (or ignore them when necessary), the man who could build dams faster than anyone else. When Henry J. Kaiser's Six Companies got the Boulder Dam...
Despite the fact that he has built more dams than any other man in history, Frank Crowe is scarcely known outside his field. But in place of publicity, Crowe has made big money, which is rare for an engineer. The Boulder job paid him a salary of $18,000 a...
Frank Crowe is rabidly against the Administration which gave him so many dams to build, is scornful of the "socialistic" cheap power they will produce. His satisfaction comes in believing that his works will stand as monuments to human progress. "Look at that Shasta Dam. That will stand there forever...
For 25 years a New Brunswick inventor named Rupert Turnbull has dreamed of building dams using Fundy's tides to generate an estimated 400,000 h.p.* If the tides can be effectively harnessed, if Inventor Turnbull's particular plan is good, the Maritimes would get cheaper electricity, postwar...