Word: workmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engineering brains we will build a great natural resource . . . make new geography . . . start a new era ... conquer the Great American Desert. To bring about this transformation requires a dam higher than any the engineer has hitherto conceived or attempted to build." Secretary Wilbur warned against a great rush of workmen to the barren dam site where their services are not yet needed...
Great was the excitement at Las Vegas (pop. 5,177) as work was about to start. The town suffered a premature land boom two years ago when the Boulder Dam Bill was signed. Houses were erected but no tenants arrived. Today ample quarters exist there for workmen and their families...
...Union Pacific to the dam site. The U. P. is ready to build the first 22 miles of this track, but declines to undertake the last eight miles up back-breaking mountain grades. Construction job No. 2: A $525,000 town at the dam site to house 5,000 workmen and families. Construction job No. 3: $18,000,000 tunnels 50 ft. in diameter to divert the river's flow while the dam is being built. The whole construction job will be under the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation which will contract with private firms...
This sort of thing has been going on for months. Up to last week the German Government and most non-Communist German newspapers continued to ignore the Red programs, fearing that any open protest would merely rouse the curiosity of German workmen, cause more of them to tune in pn Moscow. At the German Foreign Office it was learned last week, however, that diplomatic protests have been made to Moscow. In their reply the Soviet Foreign Office said...
...foundation in Tioga county, N. Y., to Coney Island, New York fun park. Last year Mrs. Sarah S. Dennen, the owner, announced she would move the structure to Coney Island in one piece, movers to be trained by highway authorities lest their bridges be damaged. In dismantling the house workmen found "a little homespun vest for a child of four or five years, tucked deeply away in the corner of a bedroom." Mrs. Dennen turned it over to the Metropolitan Museum to determine...