Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...There is but one limitation [to the growth of Los Angeles] which looms, . . . and that is adequate water supply. That can and must be assured from the Colorado River. . . . We want the greatest reservoir and the highest dam at Boulder Canyon that the engineers will recommend and I am hopeful that the project will receive favorable action from the present Congress...
...would be when its waters were thoroughly exploited. He implied that such exploitation should be under Government auspices, but by no syllable did he express hostility towards private operation, or commit himself beyond the findings of "the engineers."* He was careful to add that the "highest dam" and "greatest reservoir" must have the full approval of the six other Colorado River States...
Thus it seemed certain that Consolidated Gas Co. will become the twelfth U. S. billionary, the twelfth reservoir of a billion dollars in corporate assets...
...explanation is simple. The "public" had finally come in, tardily, clumsily, "at the top," as always, with the greatest reservoir of cash of all, compared to which Wall Street's organized money force is small. It astonished nobody, because 7,000 tickers are now hypnotizing greedy eyes in 40 states, leaving scarcely a middle-sized town from Maine to California where citizens may not actually see their savings bank withdrawals dance past their giddy eyes in strange, cryptic abbreviations three minutes after passing their checks to the broker...
...England is a reservoir of the most skilled labor, the most skilled direction, and the highest intelligence in the United States."?Herbert Hoover...