Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sukkur on the Indus, in northwestern India. There on a platform glittering with native princes and staff officers, he threw a switch and opened the flood gates of the biggest irrigation project in the world. With British talent for resonant names it is known as the Lloyd Barrage...
...when he was Governor of Bombay, Sir George Ambrose Lloyd (later better known as Lord Lloyd, Britain's iron-fisted High Commissioner for Egypt) inaugurated the scheme. Besides two dams which are. respectively, the largest and the second highest in the world, the project includes a network of canals and spillways 6,000 miles long. On it 77,000 men were employed for nine years. It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Delaware together. Statisticians figured that the masonry in the Lloyd dam would build a wall...
Immediately after the ceremony Lord Willingdon announced that a knighthood had been awarded to the British designer of the project: Charlton Scott Cholmeley Harrison. Undoubtedly the Lloyd Barrage will do more for the people of northwestern India than anything St. Gandhi has been able to think of, but all its waters could not quench Nationalist pride. India seethed with the news that A. A. Musto, native engineer in charge of construction who spent seven hot summers by the dam site, designed much special machinery, was not rewarded...
...laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 20; Mrs. Jeanette Lauchheimer and Mrs. Henriette Dannenbaum, twins, 100; Sir Henry Fielding Dickens, sixth son of Charles Dickens, 83; John Van Buren Thayer, vice president of Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co., 80;* Sir Johnston Forbes-Robertson, 79; David Lloyd George, 69; Carl Laemmle, 65; Felix Moritz Warburg...
...models in the exhibit of modern architecture will be prepared by well-known American architects, among whom will be Raymond Hood, Frank Lloyd Wright and Howe & Lescaze. European architects also are preparing models for display, including Le Corbusier of Paris, J. J. Oud of Poland, and Otto Haesler, Walter Groplus and Mies van der Rohe of Germany...