Word: trenholme
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Bureau of Reclamation men and their boss, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes, that coming to 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...