Word: damming
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British Ambassador Lord Inverchapel, in McCook, Neb. to dress up the dedication of a dam, peered at the razzle-dazzle in wonder and made a traveler's observation: "In my country we help our celebrations along with beer and whiskey. You people do it on coffee...
...blueprint, the dam had been known as Boulder, since it was to be built across the Colorado River in Boulder Canyon. In 1930, when construction started, Interior Secretary Wilbur named it Hoover after his boss. When the Democrats moved in, Secretary Harold Ickes decided that Wilbur had had no right to rename the dam, changed it back to Boulder-despite the fact that the site had been shifted 20 miles southward to Black Canyon...
Paying tribute to the man whose special talents he has used on several occasions, President Truman last week signed the joint congressional resolution restoring the name of Hoover to Boulder Dam. He used four pens, asked that they all be sent to the nation's only living ex-President...
Republicans were pleased. The name of Boulder Dam had rankled in their breasts for 14 years.* G.O.P. loyalists like the Los Angeles Times, which had never referred to it as Boulder, crowed in triumph...
...Boulder City, nine miles west of the dam, was glum. Merchants, contemplating a quarter of a million dollars' worth of ash trays, sofa pillows and other knicknacks emblazoned "Souvenir of Boulder Dam," tried to decide what to do. They could get rid of them at a loss. But what if the next Congress were Democratic...