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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question remained to be settled: whether fingerling salmon that are swimming downstream now can get past the dam uninjured. It is hoped that even if they fail to find the exits provided, they will pass unharmed through the turbines revolving at 75 r.p.m...
...Follette "a lot of violence has been committed by my deputies." Last week Mr. Middleton and his co-defendants jammed a good portion of the tiny, oval courtroom. With lawyers, underlings, and visiting newspapermen, they took up so much space that hundreds of languorously curious country folk could not get inside...
...staircases installed at 170-foot Bonneville Dam for the convenience of fish. Object of the system is to enable Columbia River salmon to pursue their four-year life cycle: hatch in gravel beds in the river's upper tributaries, grow several inches, drift down to the ocean tailfirst, get to weigh anywhere from 10-to 60 lb., swim back up the Columbia River to spawn and die exactly where they started. The system, consists of 1) two separate "stairways" (of one-foot waterfalls separated by pools 16 ft. wide) for fish who feel like climbing to the headwaters under...
...White, who, at the La Follette hearings, was accused of trying to murder ex-Deputy (and codefendant) Hugh Taylor, who has been accused of killing a citizen named Robert Moore. "My clients," said Lawyer Dawson, "include gentlemen of substance and breeding." Judge Ford decided to stay where he was, get on with hearing 250 Government witnesses...
Because of the success this past year, school officials of Greater Boston are being asked to cooperate in helping high school graduates to get a college education. Students will use the Brooks House library, Langdon Burwell '41, chairman of the Undergraduate Faculty, announced today...