Word: boulder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They found their answer in Sunnyvale's Joshua Hendy Iron Works, largest machinery maker in the West Coast. California's famed "Six Companies," which built Boulder Dam and owned Calship, already owned a controlling interest in Hendy. They decided it was time to own it all. So they bought out the 25% interest of Hendy President Charles E. Moore, who had other business interests and no taste for the strike which had shut Hendy's San Francisco plant. As the new president of Hendy, McCone took on the job of settling the strike...
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...
...Public Works program. He was beset by fixers, agents, Congressmen. As well as he could-and he got pretty good at it-he repelled them. ("We have battled, toe to toe, with the avaricious and ruthless.") He presided with belligerent honesty over the Grand Coulee project, Boulder Dam, a vast $13,000,000 building to house his 4,686 Interior Department employes...
Last week an exhibition of De Creeft's latest liberations opened in a Manhattan gallery. It proved that he does find his figures in stones, and keeps them there. Anyone could tell that his Aux Aguets (In Ambush) had been carved from a round boulder. His figures had none of the hovering aliveness of Epstein's Lucifer, nor did they seem to think and gesture as some 15th-Century German cathedral carvings do. They just lay around-like beautiful rocks...
...Escape. But to the Ft. Harrison prisoners Private McGee was just another, if slightly luckier, guy. Cried they: "If McGee got out, why shouldn't we?" When bewhiskered Colonel Peyton C. Winlock, post commander, tried to quell the riot with dignity and authority, someone let fly a boulder which caught him on the back of the head. Dazedly he retired. Fires burst out in two widely separated buildings: a barracks and the infirmary. Four Indianapolis fire companies were summoned to help firemen control a conflagration, spread by a brisk breeze...