Word: spiking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...urging a government-built dam in Boulder Canyon. Senator Hiram Johnson and Representative Phil Swing, co-authors of the Swing-Johnson Bill authorizing the construction of Boulder Dam, were the men who started and carried through the ten-year congressional fight which made possible Secretary Wilbur's Silver Spike ceremony. Your footnote saying Herbert Hoover got seven affected states "to sign a treaty agreeing to build the dam" is also incorrect. The treaty negotiated by Mr. Hoover, the Colorado River compact signed November, 1922, not 1921, contains no agreement whatever to build Boulder Dam or any other...
...sagebrush on a windswept Nevada plain about 22 mi. from the Boulder Canyon damsite stood Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building the $165,000,000 Boulder...
...considered Canada's richest man, but his wealth has come from no single accomplishment. It represents his profits from a long association with Canada's industrialization. He was one of the leaders in the tireless group who built the Canadian Pacific. So soon as the last spike was driven, Sir Herbert went to South America and built the Trans-Andean railroad. After this interlude he returned to Montreal, battled for light and gas companies, in 1908 became president of the Royal Bank of Canada, the Dominion's first billion-dollar bank. Equally strenuous is James Henry Gundy, 50, so closely...
...receiver leaves Coach Mitchell with two of his most dependable ball players on the bench. E. A. Mays '32, who sprained his ankle in the same inning, will not be back at his regular post on second base for three weeks. E. H. McGrath '31, who suffered a painful spike injury in the game, did not attend practice yesterday, but all reports indicate that he will be on hand for the Bates battle tomorrow...
...During my younger days in Wall Street I had contact with the older financiers and with the great railroad barons-the ferocious cigar-chewing men who drove back the frontier with every blow on an iron spike. Then years later I was in Washington during the most stirring period of the War; and after that I went to Paris and saw the statesmen of a dozen flags sew the map of Europe into something they hoped would stay together. . . . I've had a vivid life...