Word: mississippi
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...slides. Mr. Cooper is one of the foremost engineers of the country. Among other feats, he drove a tunnel under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, which was considered an impossible task. Perhaps his most important exploit was the planning and building of the great water power dam across the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa. The dam is nine-tenths of a mile long, being made up of one hundred and nineteen arched spans...
...America, and is very efficient as an organizer. He has carried through many important projects, including the driving of a tunnel under the Horseshoe Falls at Niagara, which many scientists declared impossible. Mr. Cooper's greatest feat, however, was the construction of the huge water power dam across the Mississippi at Keokuk, Iowa. The dam is made of concrete, and extends nine-tenths of a mile between Iowa and Illinois. The power is generated in thirty special turbines, which generate 200,000 horse-power. These turbines were designed by Mr. Cooper...
Group B--California, Washington, Oregon, Colorado, Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi...
...Abraham Wasser, of Pittsburgh, Pa.; as of the class of '13, Fred Raymond Churchill, of Cambridge; William Henry Dooling, of Pittsburg, Pa.; Andrew Yates Hodgdon, of Dedham; Erastus Mead Hudson, of Plattsburg, N. Y.; George Browne Post, 3rd, of New York, N. Y.; Clayton Thomas Rand, S.B. (Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College) '11 of Bond, Miss...
...that the earnings in this section are less to begin with and less throughout. This is perhaps caused by the fact that New England is more crowded with welltrained lawyers than almost any other part of the country, making the competition keener. In comparing the territory east of the Mississippi, what that west of the Mississippi, it is found that the eastern section has the lower average, and doubtless for the same reason. In the eight year out, the average east of the Mississippi is larger than that west, but this cannot be relied upon owing to the fact that...