Word: reservoirs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There is no more reason for public officials allowing a presentation of Waiting for Lefty than there is a reason for allowing a madman to distribute deadly bacilli into a public reservoir. . . . The Boston police served the public and championed the higher idealism of true Americanism by closing the play and arresting some of the actors...
Aluminum Co., planning to build a plant on the Little Tennessee River (tributary of the Tennessee), had begun buying a power site. When 80% of the land for a reservoir had been acquired, TVA stepped in, bought two small tracts for "national park purposes," one of a few acres, the other 30 ft. by 50 ft. For the more minuscule parcel of land TVA paid $150 (compared to $4 or $5 paid by Aluminum Co. for similar land nearby) but it was worth it, for Aluminum Co. could not legally flood two "national parks...
Horatio S. White '73, Professor of German, Emeritus, died Wednesday afternoon at his home in Cambridge, after a short illness. Funeral services will be held at the home, 29 Reservoir Street, at noon today, with burial in Mt. Auburn Cemetery...
Completing the traditional "once around the reservoir," Editor Leach bounced along the West Drive toward a Park exit, thinking of the anti-Crime indignation he hoped to arouse. Suddenly two men jumped from the shrubbery into his path. One pinioned Editor Leach's arms, forced him to his knees. The other mercilessly drove his fists again &again into Editor Leach's face, closed both his eyes. The ruffians took Editor Leach's wallet, containing $40, and his gold watch, chain & penknife which his wife had given him before they were married. By the time the editor recovered...
...Tuolumne River. Indians who named the canyon "Hetch Hetchy" were gone before any white man thought to ask them what the strange words meant. More than half a century ago visionary San Franciscans, irked by the scarcity of their water supply, began to talk of a Hetch Hetchy reservoir. From the wild and inaccessible canyon 3,500 ft. above sea level, water would need no pumping on its course to the city. The knife-gash gorge at its outlet was ideal for damming. Thirty-three years ago this week San Francisco asked the U. S. Department of the Interior...