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...Public Works program. He was beset by fixers, agents, Congressmen. As well as he could-and he got pretty good at it-he repelled them. ("We have battled, toe to toe, with the avaricious and ruthless.") He presided with belligerent honesty over the Grand Coulee project, Boulder Dam, a vast $13,000,000 building to house his 4,686 Interior Department employes...
Tinker's Dam...
...misuse the expression "tinker's dam" by spelling it "tinker's damn" [TIME, Jan. 7]? ... The latter expression means nothing. A tinker's dam was really a dam made of clay, which the traveling tinkers used to surround a spot on a pan or kettle to keep the solder from spreading or running until it cooled, while [the utensil was] being repaired. As soon as the solder cooled, the dam was thrown away as useless and worthless. Hence . . . "tinker's dam" to denote something having no value...
...Dam interesting, but a "baseless conjecture," according to the Oxford English Dictionary...
...raising the level of the upper reaches of the north-flowing Pechora and Vychegda Rivers (see map). Here in the flatlands, an imperceptible earth curve is all that determines whether rivers flow south to the grainfields or north to the Arctic. G.V.P. wants them to flow south. The Kuibyshev dam has already been started. All the rest of G.V.P. is still just a bright gleam in the Soviet...