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...Johnstown the dynamiting of the Bethlehem plant's water supply not only threw 6,000 men out of work once more but raised 2,000 ghosts. The great Quemahoning Dam above the city is eleven times as big as the one that let go in 1889 and if terrorists were abroad, where might they not strike next? Johnstown's loud Mayor Daniel J. Shields sent President Roosevelt an I-told-you-so telegram, called before him the district's two chief Labor leaders and warned them to get out of town or stay "at their own risk...
Died. Hugh Lincoln Cooper, 72, engineer of the Soviet Dnepr Dam, the Wilson Dam at Muscle Shoals, Ala., other large hydro-electric projects; in Stamford, Conn. Engineer Cooper was one of the few foreigners to win the confidence of Soviet Dictator Joseph Stalin. His Dnepr power plant, with a 750,000 horsepower capacity, is second only to the one at Boulder Dam...
Surging through the giant turbines of Boulder Dam, the Colorado River can now produce 1,240,000,000 kilowatt hours of electric energy per year which is piped 267 miles to Los Angeles over six hollow copper cables 11 in. in diameter. In an engineering enterprise of this magnitude unique solutions of special problems are likely to occur. One such solution publicized in Los Angeles last week was the way in which radio communication is maintained with the 14 repair crews which patrol the transmission line in automobiles...
...Having signed the second deficiency bill appropriating $82,000,000, chiefly for TVA, and authorizing that body to start work on a new $112,000,000 dam at Gilbertsville, Ky., Franklin Roosevelt last week packed himself off to spend Memorial Day with his mother at Hyde Park, his first visit with her in four months...
...Economy were glaringly highlighted. Tennessee's Senator Kenneth McKellar, a recent convert to Economy, managed to persuade the Senate, which was supposed to be paring down the $83,000,000 Second Deficiency Bill, to authorize and make the initial appropriation for a new $112,000,000 TVA dam near Gilbertsville, Ky. -just across the line from Tennessee. Chairman Robert L. ("Muley"; Doughton of the House Ways & Means Committee, who because a new tax bill would bear his name has been one of the hottest champions of Economy, grew livid last week when he learned that the House Appropriations Committee...