Word: grand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...postage stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business man, a factory worker and a woman "walking hand in hand in a common determination.'' ¶A start on the great Columbia River Basin project was assured when the President approved construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington out of public works funds. Originally the dam was to be 300 ft. high with a hydroelectric capacity of 1,000,000 h.p. Because no market existed for so much power, modified specifications call for a 130-ft. dam costing $63,000,000. Also...
Herewith a true likeness of Director Cammerer and apologies to onetime Senator Otis F. Glenn of Illinois whose picture TIME used by mistake. Last week busy Director Cammerer was still Parkinspecting, had visited Yosemite, Sequoia, Zion, flown across the Grand Canyon of the Colorado...
...Aged 83, the King's hoary uncle H. R. H. Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught and of Strathearn. kept a public engagement by opening in thoroughgoing fashion the new $5,000,000 headquarters of English freemasonry in London as the Grand Master of the United Grand Lodge...
...main section of the city at 9 p. m. one night last week. Sirens screeched an air raid alarm. For one hour a government plane flew around and around dropping fireworks and leaflets. These announced that the nights of August 9, 10 and 11 have been set aside for "grand aerial maneuvers over Tokyo and the vicinity...
...Detroit is convinced that its banking woes were due to governmental bungling. Last week Judsie Keidan, who is investigating the Detroit fiasco in the role of a one-man grand jury, announced that he would subpoena Herbert Clark Hoover...