Word: dam
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thank you for publishing the very interesting letters about the Hoover Dam-information that every Easterner should know (TIME, June...
...changing of this name, Hoover Dam, is to quote Will Rogers, "the silliest thing" any Administration ever did. Also it is the cheapest and most unAmerican...
Because Boulder, Colorado had won "her place in the sun" as one of the most beautiful little cities in America (pop. 12,000) and because of the fact that for 75 years we have had a Boulder Canyon and for many years, a dam at the head of that canyon, 18 miles from the city, we protested the naming of the new city near the dam site in Nevada, "Boulder City...
...note with regret the decision of the administration to change the name, "Hoover Dam" to the "Boulder Dam," thus still further adding to the confusion of names that has made it necessary for us to answer more than 5,000 letters concerning the "Boulder Dam...
...magnanimous to a defeated President and merciful to an overworked Chamber of Commerce Secretary and let the name "Hoover Dam" stand...