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Films scheduled to be shown are 'Steel--Man's Servant," "Norris Dam and TVA Work," and "Grand Coulee Dam...
...first, a technicolor sound picture with Edwin C. Hill as commentator, follows the manufacture of steel from the mines to the finished product. Depicted in the second film are some of the constructive operations of the Tennessee Calley Authority. The last picture shows work on the Grand Coulee Dam, largest in the United States, in which the process of solidifying the soil by freezing was successfully used...
Motion pictures, entitled "Steel-Man's Servant", "Norris Dam and TVA at Work", and "The Grand Coulee Dam" will be shown on Thursday. Under the auspices of the Engineering Society, the entertainment will be held at the Institute of Geographical Exploration, 2 Divinity Avenue, at 8:30 o'clock...
...project will cost in toto upwards of $170,000,000. Materials for the dam were not included in the builders' contract, will be bought separately by the Government. The Southern Pacific's railroad tracks and Western Union's wires must be expensively rerouted through a tunnel west of the dam. A long system of canals and transverse ditches will be dug, to carry water not only to Sacramento Valley farmers but far south into the San Joaquin Valley, whence waters have been diverted to thirsty Madera, Fresno, Tulare, Kings and Kern counties...
...Shasta Dam will be one more world wonder for Californians to boast about-more than half again as vast a bulk of masonry as the Great Pyramid, only 167 ft. lower than Boulder Dam (world's highest: 727 ft.), only 700 ft. shorter at the crest than Grand Coulee (world's longest: 4.200 ft.). World's No. 2 Dam in these respects, it will be No. 1 for the height of its overflow: 480 ft., or thrice the fall of Niagara...