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...project to transport water eastward from Frying Pan Creek, a tributary of the Colorado, through a tunnel under the Continental Divide to the Arkansas River, south of Denver. The other is the Upper Colorado project, calling for the building of ten dams, which could rival lower Colorado's Hoover (Boulder) Dam project, distribute water and power to Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and New Mexico. McKay hopes Congress will authorize construction of the two projects for 1954 to 1955, as a hedge against a business downturn. Total cost: $2.5 billion...
...rerouting of the Alaska Highway and the Yukon Railway. The southern side of the manmade lake will be tapped, and its waters through tunnels to the Pacific. Energy produced by the waters' swift drop to the sea will almost triple the output of the famed U.S. Hoover...
Harvard awarded 1884 degrees on June 21, 1928, with 659 going to seniors. And four men of '28 received the highest honor awarded to a Harvard graduate, a summa cum laude degree. They were: Edgar Malone Hoover, V. Samuel Seidel, Russell Thornley Sharpe, and Israel Solomon Stamm. The coming years would be hard, but the Class had Harvard diplomas, and that would help.Twenty-five years afterward members of the Class get together to discuss their reunion. WILLIAM SALTONSTALL, DON HURLEY, FRED WEED, and BOB GREGG were photographer at a pre-reunion meeting last December. Saltonstall and Weed are both headmasters...
...football team defeated the Yale class champions 13 to 0. Hammer, Dearborn, Hemminger, Wilson, Cashing, Turnoy, Fox, Hodges, Adams, Herman, Allen, Lomasnoy, Heard, Barbee, Van Rensseloar, Ellis, Mulliken, and Long were on the winning team. And Phi Beta Kappa's juniors were Ernest T. Berkeley, Edgar M. Hoover, Hyman Sobell, Martin Tall, Bleiweiss, Jones, and Stamm...
...mean an answer to man's dwindling reserves of coal and fuel oil. In an ideal nuclear power plant, says Dr. Chauncey Starr, North American's director of atomic research, 10 lbs. of fissionable material a day could produce electric power equal to the ultimate capacity of Hoover...