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...President spent a week roving through the vast forests and high mountains of the most heroic terrain in the U. S. as though he had on Bunyan's boots. Bonneville Dam, 170 ft. high, 1,250 ft. long is being built by War Department engineers complete with staircases as well as two electric elevators for traveling salmon...
...Back on the special train, he stopped at Grand Coulee Dam, which will eventually be 550 ft. high, 4,300 ft. long, will cost $181,101,000, (not counting $208,500,000 for irrigation canals),will impound a reservoir almost big enough for Paul Bunyan to bathe in. Said the President: ''My head is full of figures and the easiest way to describe the figures is that this is the largest structure so far as anyone knows that has ever been undertaken...
...Anti-Court Plan Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney (TIME, Oct. 4), did not race to board the Presidential special. Instead, from California, he telegraphed his regret that he could not be on hand to welcome the President to his State. At Fort Peck, largest earth dam in the world as Grand Coulee is the largest concrete-the President amiably gave credit to Senator James E. Murray and Representative James F. O'Connor and Jerry J. O'Connell for helping to develop Montana's water-resources, but Senator Wheeler was not mentioned...
...think you've got somethin there that might be worth continuin. You fellows over in Marion, Ohio always was darn good organizers and sum of the best apple sauce ever made in the country came from there. If your apple butter was only half as good, it was dam good stuff, and so you kin put me clown as a charter member...
...himself how some of the people in the States whose Senators were among its strongest opponents felt about his Court Plan has been on Franklin Roosevelt's schedule for a month. Last week he made up his mind to go. Plans called for one major speech, at Bonneville Dam, rear platform talks along the way. After his five busy days in Washington the President at week's end went back to Hyde Park to rest and map his itinerary. First public appearance scheduled was Cheyenne, Wyo., home of Democratic Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Tentative program thereafter...