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...reclamation projects today, 41 were created by Republicans. These included the first gigantic, multiple-purpose dam on the Colorado River [the Hoover Dam...
...During the last 52 years, Republicans and Democrats have equally divided the time in public office. The Republicans had just one bad episode of corruption [the Teapot Dam scandal]. There were nine men involved in [it]. The .other members of the Administration were aghast. Before we had finished with [the nine], two had committed suicide, one died while awaiting trial, four landed in prison, and one escaped by a twice-hung jury...
...Truth Squad," set out to follow Truman through the same whistle stops and present the Republican rebuttal to his "facts." The Republican vigilance was thoroughly justified; the President was engaged in a no-holds-barred assault on the Republican Party's strongest asset. At Montana's Tiber Dam, Truman pushed down a plunger setting off a dynamite charge. Playfully, he told reporters: "This is what we're going to do to Eisenhower...
Moving on to dedicate Montana's Hungry Horse Dam, where he donned a safety hat labeled "Harry," Truman warned his audience: "All of you who are here today better go over and take another look at this dam, because if the Republicans win this election it will be a long time before you see another structure of this kind." This statement brought forth from the "Truth Squad" the assertion that the Republican-controlled 80th Congress had appropriated more money for Hungry Horse than had the Democratic-controlled 79th Congress. Replied Eisenhower: "Anyone who thinks I am not interested...
Alcoa's plan is to dam the Yukon River deep in Yukon Territory, thus raise the level of several lakes near the border. Alcoa would then tunnel 21 miles through mountains and under the fabled Chilkoot Pass to bring the water down through penstocks to the turbines. The generators would be in the rock itself, protected from the weather and enemy bombs. The power would be cheap enough (probably 2? per Ib. of aluminum v. 4$ at Alcoa's most recent U.S. facilities) to offset the cost of transporting alumina all the way north and finished aluminum...