Word: sacramento
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Efficacy. In Sacramento. George Brandenburg sued the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for personal injury, got down on his knees in the courtroom and prayed while the jury deliberated, won a $5,000 judgment...
...life of the huge electric generator was the climax of the six-year job of building Shasta. But to strapping (205 lb., 6 ft. 3 in.), profane Francis Trenholm Crowe, general superintendent of construction for Pacific Constructors, Inc., the big moment had come four months before, when the Sacramento River began a regulated flow through outlet valves on the dam's broad, sloping downstream face. "That meant we had the river licked," said Crowe. "Pinned down, shoulders right on the mat. Hell, that's what we came up here...
...Sacramento's banks were too low to use Crowe's cross-canyon cable device. So he built the world's tallest headtower (465 ft.), and poured every 16-ton bucket of concrete from cables in a semicircle above...
...Sacramento, Calif...
...will probably be a lousy team " warned Edmonds. "But what really counts is that Sacramento still has its ball club...