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While their constituents prayed in church for presidential approval, southern Senators and Representatives flocked to the White House to ask President Hoover to sign the bill. He was reminded that he had approved Boulder Dam Act which called for Government power production and its cheap sale to his own California. To his attention was called the fact that he had helped put the U. S. Bureau of Mines into the production of helium, thereby putting a private industry out of business...
Last summer Boulder Dam advocates proposed that the U. S. settle its dispute with Mexico over the waters of the Colorado River (which empties 80 mi. below the border) by the purchase of Lower California. With the money she got from the sale, they contended, "Mexico could settle not only U. S. claims but also all her debts to Britain, France and every other country." Big Navy men, who have repeatedly charged that Japan covets Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of Lower California as a base from which to attack the U. S., warmed to any proposition which would...
...engineer and 13,000 Russians mining 10,000 tons of asbestos rock daily in Azbest. . . . "The largest construction camp in the world" going full blast at Magnetogorsk on the Capitalist "piece work" system, building what is to be "the greatest steel centre on Earth. ..." A dam three quarters of a mile long across the Ural River completed in four months...
...Engineers busy installing the water passages in Colonel Hugh Lincoln Cooper's hydroelectric dam at Dnieprostroy. . . . Col. & Mrs. Cooper & friends living on caviar and canned luxuries from the U. S., cooked by a chef who served the Romanovs. . . . Everyone quoting Lenin's axiom: "Electrification plus the Soviet power equals Socialism...
...Hoover (Boulder) Dam he said: "If one State [Arizona] can block the destiny of a region and a watershed . . . a great part of the West's future control of its water will be relinquished...