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Died. John L. Baker, 64, who 47 years ago saw the South Fork Dam crumble, galloped a mile down the valley to warn inhabitants of the approaching Johnstown Flood; of leg injuries sustained when he was struck by an automobile; in Windber, Pa. Died, Samuel E. Hill, 70, onetime traveling salesman who 38 years ago in Boscobel, Wis., with John H. Nicholson, laid the foundation for the Christian Commercial Travelers' Association (Gideons); of heart disease; in Beloit,Wis. (seep...
...briskly slapping into mundane consciousness. Caption: "Life Begins." First LIFE feature, Franklin Roosevelt's Wild West, showed how WPA workers disport themselves in frontier style in the bars and dance halls of the new-hatched towns of New Deal and Wheeler, Mont., where the vast Fort Peck Dam project is under way. Prize shot: A pile of tangled wire dumped outside a rooming house, captioned, "The only idle bedsprings in 'New Deal' are the broken ones." Dispatched to the Northwest for some of her famed construction shots, Photographer Margaret Bourke-White came by chance on these frontier...
Another attraction of the erstwhile narrow-gauge line is the switchback at Whitingham Dam, reputed to be the only one east of the Rockies, constructed when the dam (largest earth dam in the world) forced rebuilding of much of the roadbed...
When President Roosevelt dramatically "called to life ' the electrical generating equipment of Boulder Dam last fortnight by pressing a gold telegraph key in Washington, he actually started only one small generator for dam site use (TIME, Sept. 21). Next month, however, power will begin to pour into Los Angeles from the monster 115,000 h. p. turbines. Since this is 60-cycle current and since the city has been using 50-cycle current, some 100,000 electric clocks would run 20% fast on Boulder Dam power if left as they now are. Last week the city authorities opened municipal...
...Tennessee Valley Authority, for the Civilian Conservation Corps and other public work projects, he envisions a great campaign to protect U. S. resources that would create five million jobs, stop unemployment and beautify the country as well. For arguments about costs he has shrewd answers, pointing out that Boulder Dam, by preventing a flood in 1935. saved the Imperial Valley at least $10,000,000. Holding that confidence is the basic need, he gives brief, effective accounts of projects in Sweden, Russia, England. Readers may be dazzled by Stuart Chase's bold vision of a happier future for their...