Word: shasta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High on Shasta Dam's vast concrete face last week a big steel gate opened. A mighty wall of water rushed down to the No. 4 penstock, exploded against the huge waiting turbine in the powerhouse below the dam. The tons of steel began to turn, accelerated, then hummed like a tremendous...
Last week the newsmen celebrated again. In the San Francisco Hall of Justice press room, decorated with Shasta daisies and festooned with illuminated guests, 50 bottles of whiskey and four cases of beer were drunk up. Booker T. Day had become an annual affair...
...Battle Is Too Big. Typical is the story of stocky, plain-talking Clifford Mooers, founder of Shasta Oil Co. As a young man, Mooers prospected for gold in the Yukon, ran an Alaskan trading post for three years, was a flyer in World War I. Fitted for the risky business of wildcatting, he formed his Shasta Co. in 1925. For 17 years he was glad to take the long odds. But last month he decided he could not buck the new war regulations. He sold Shasta Co. to Stanolind for $750,000. Said he bluntly: "The present trend of bureaucratic...
Near Redding, Calif. last week, a $100,000,000 wonder of the world neared completion (84%). By the first of next year, months ahead of schedule, Shasta Dam will go to work...
...Shasta is larger than Boulder Dam, second in all the world only to Grand Coulee in Washington. Its whirling turbines will feed power through the West. Its huge bulk-580 ft. thick, more than 560 ft. high, 3,500 ft. long-will back water 35 miles up the Sacramento, Pit and McCloud rivers. Along with the Friant Reservoir on the San Joaquin River, this man-made great lake will irrigate 1,000,000 California acres which would otherwise be largely desert...