Word: dozer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...finished it. Asked about progress, Colonel Charles Gleim, formerly construction engineer of the Lincoln Tunnel, commander of the advanced engineers, answered: "Doing great. Only lost half a mile this month." Bulldozers, trucks, tractors slid or were knocked over mountainsides in drops of hundreds, sometimes thousands of feet. One 'dozer operator ducked as a clod of dirt hit his head, looked up and saw a whole mountaintop coming down on him. He jumped clear. His bulldozer was buried. To exhume it the engineers had to blast away tons of rocks...
...such dozer was Vice President Henry Wallace, presiding, who nodded while orators droned on. When Wyoming's desert-dry Senator Henry H. Schwartz suddenly bellowed: "Mr. President!", Wallace came to with a start, automatically declared: "Without objection it is so ordered." The galleries roared...