Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. George Palmer Putnam, 51, publicity-loving publisher; and Mrs. Jean-Marie Consigny James; in Boulder City, Nev. Publisher Putnam's second wife, famed Flier Amelia Earhart, vanished over the Pacific Ocean in 1937. His first wife divorced...
...Colorado River's Boulder Dam has six giant generators which turn out 82.500 kilowatts each. Among hydroelectric turbine machines, these hold a record for power. But Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. pointed out last week that "records don't last long among water wheels." The company has started work on three generators rated at 108,000 kilowatts apiece...
These are for Washington's Grand Coulee, biggest engineering enterprise in history, and will get into action in 1941. They will weigh 960 tons each, measure 48.5 ft. across as against the Boulder Dam generators...
Jean Sibelius has finished his eighth symphony (in his boulder-like head; it is not yet completely written down). From Brahms's massive skull came four symphonies, from Tchaikovsky's high crown six, from Beethoven's shaggy pate nine. Mozart's wonderfully broad forehead gave out no less than 41. But when tough old Joseph ("Papa'') Haydn sat down at the age of 72 to catalogue his works, he could shake his egg-shaped head till it nearly cracked, but he could not for the life of him remember all those nice symphonies...
...intake is at Parker Dam on the Colorado River, 155 miles south of Boulder Dam. Five pumping stations raise the stream high enough to get over or through the mountains. Downhill gravity flow takes care of most of the route. There are 38 tunnels totaling 108 miles...