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...before he died, this plain man and radical saw the monument that will preserve his name. That monument, not merely Norris Dam but the entire Tennessee Valley Authority, is greater than any Pharaoh or any emperor ever...
...summer of 1862, a Union cavalry patrol galloping by the deserted station of Beaver Dam, Va. almost rode down a meek-looking little Confederate scout day dreaming in the sun. In his haversack they found a single, unimportant-looking letter and a newly-published copy of Napoleon's Maxims of War. Unimpressed, they read and destroyed the letter, sent the scout off to jail in Washington...
...roach are the American (an inch and a half long) and the German (half as large) ; the German is locally known as the "Croton bug" because it first invaded the city in large numbers when holes were cut in walls for water pipes, at the time the Croton Dam was built for a civic water supply. In spite of its appetite, the cock roach's chief danger to man is not destructiveness but food contamination...
...Maxence and Antoinette d'Entre mont were typical bright bubbles in the froth of prewar French life just before it went over the dam...
When Shasta is dedicated, Frank Crowe's speech will probably be the same two sentences he spoke at Boulder and Parker: "If you gentlemen want to see the fellow who really built this dam, go over to the mess hall. He wears a tin hat, his average age is thirty-one and he can do things...