Word: shasta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applauded. A silk-stocking audience in Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel broke into a noontime speech 25 times in 35 minutes. He was also cheered, though more perfunctorily, by Republicans in San Francisco and Reno, and greeted heartily by party members in Las Vegas and at Hoover and Shasta dams...
Died. Francis Trenholm ("Hurry Up") Crowe, 63, big (205 lb., 6 ft. 3 in.), brainy civil engineer who built more dams than any man in history (19, including Boulder and Shasta); of a heart attack; in Redding, Calif. Blustering Hurry Up Crowe once bellowed at a worker: "Watch what the hell you're doing or you'll fall and break your neck." Retorted the worker: "Well, it's my neck." Shot back Crowe: "Yes, it's your neck now, but as soon as you break it, it's mine...
...tower cost $600,000, but, said Crowe, "it was a half-million dollars cheaper than any scheme anybody else thought of." Shasta also used the world's longest conveyor belt (ten and a half miles) to carry gravel and sand to the damsite. The two bold innovations have drawn international engineering attention...
Frank Crowe is rabidly against the Administration which gave him so many dams to build, is scornful of the "socialistic" cheap power they will produce. His satisfaction comes in believing that his works will stand as monuments to human progress. "Look at that Shasta Dam. That will stand there forever, holding back the river. And the powerhouse will keep right on turning out juice until somebody discovers how to make power out of sunlight...
...When Shasta is dedicated, Frank Crowe's speech will probably be the same two sentences he spoke at Boulder and Parker: "If you gentlemen want to see the fellow who really built this dam, go over to the mess hall. He wears a tin hat, his average age is thirty-one and he can do things...