Word: dnepr
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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Died. Hugh Lincoln Cooper, 72, engineer of the Soviet Dnepr Dam, the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., other large hydro-electric projects; in Stamford, Conn. Engineer Cooper was one of the few foreigners to win the confidence of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin. His Dnepr power plant, with a 750,000 horsepower capacity, is second only to the one at Boulder...
Next day the Commissar's car took the Ambassador to the metallurgical centre of the Ukraine near the great Dnepr River hydroelectric dam. In the heat of Russia's Revolution, some demanding comrades from the Ukraine called on the great Lenin and wanted to know what the Ukraine was going to get out of all this...
...LENIN." This had the force of a ukase from the Tsar, and for years "electricity" used to be a magic word in Soviet Russia, orators telling everyone as Lenin did that "Electrification, plus the Soviet Power, equals Socialism!" This dazzling equation was given practical expression by erecting the great Dnepr dam, on which 30,000 Russians toiled for five years under Russian engineers topped by U. S. Engineer Hugh Lincoln Cooper who always gave them every credit, received a reputed $125,000 in cash, had a onetime chef-to-the-Tsar cook his meals and also enjoyed a private...