Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tobacco, peanuts and power. To Wiinston-Salem on the north, Durham on the east and the Piedmont ("Where Wealth Awaits You") Section on the south, the Duke Power Co. furnishes 849,905 h.p. to light lights and turn wheels. Duke is building additional plants on the Catawba River near Charlotte to furnish 600,000 h.p. more...
Between Columbia and Lexington on the Saluda River a lake to impound 100 billion cubic feet of water and generate 261,000 h.p. is abuilding by the new Lexington Power Co., subsidiary of General Gas & Electric Corp...
...President Coolidge took up a pen and wrote "Calvin." He took up another pen and wrote "Cool." With a third pen he wrote "idge" and as he dotted the "i" the Swing-Johnson bill, authorizing the Federal Boulder Dam in Black Canyon on the Colorado River, became effective. California's Senator Johnson and Representative Swing stood by, rejoicing over their seven-year job, done at last. Each legislator got one of the pens. The third pen was handed to a Hearst newspaperman. Dr. Elwood Mead, chief of the U. S. Reclamation Service (Interior Department), immediately sent a telegram...
...Oscar S. Straus, 70, widow of the late Secretary of Commerce & Labor under Roosevelt, friend of the late Hunter Carl E. Akeley, will sail on Jan. 19 for Africa, push up the river Nile, into the Livingstone Mountains, in quest of birds, beasts and vegetation for the American Museum of Natural History. No gun-toter, she will use the camera...
...Shredded Wheat had progressed from a Nebraska hotel to a Worcester factory; the next step was the move to Niagara Falls. This transition resulted from the enterprise of William B. Rankine, who had built power houses on the Niagara River but had no factories to utilize the power of the Falls. Mr. Rankine visited Mr. Perky, persuaded him to move to Niagara. Here Mr. Perky built a two million dollar plant, which, however, got him into financial difficulties. Thereupon Mr. Rankine interested various capitalists from New York City, Buffalo and Niagara Falls in the formation of a ten million dollar...