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...sandy loam of the valley, when irrigated by good water from Roosevelt Dam,* produces superior vegetables. But 1,000 disgruntled farmers had gathered together in the valley for a protest parade. They were incensed at 1,000 chipper little Japanese and some three dozen Hindus who were raising great big heads of lettuce and juicy lemons on their fertile valley soil, eating rice and doing nicely while an honest Aryan could not make a decent living...
When New York's potent Ulen & Co. got the dam contract in 1929, swaggering, dynamic President Carlos Ibafiez had been "the Chilean Mussolini" for two years and both his regime and his treasury seemed rock-ribbed. Two years later the Ibafiez Dictatorship blew up and Ulen & Co. wrote in their Report to Stockholders: "The work on contracts for the Republic of Chile was suspended in 1931, due to the inability of the clients to furnish funds for their continuance...
...heat. When he left his air-cooled railroad car at Glasgow, Mont, to drive 30 dusty miles to the Fort Peck Dam and address 10,000 people, the thermometer stood at 112° in the sun. At Devils Lake, N. Dak., before 9 in the morning while the crowd waited for him to leave the train, three people fainted from the heat. Later in the day as he spoke to 25,000 people with a sultry thundercloud overhead, the perspiration ran in streams down his dusty cheeks. At Rochester, Minn., when he spoke at the presentation of a tablet...
Once ashore, President Roosevelt plunged into the business of pointing the finger of publicity at the concrete results of New Deal spending: the $31,000,000 hydroelectric and navigation dam at Bonneville on the Columbia River 40 miles above Portland; the $63,000,000 hydro-electric Grand Coulee Dam where the Columbia flows through the barren hills of central Washington; the $62,000,000 flood control dam at Fort Peck in Montana on the upper Missouri; the $65,000,000 dam at Devils Lake in North Dakota. By word and deed the President was determined to make the nation "dam...
...profit margins on Electric Home & Farm Authority lines. Ice and fuel dealers, whose business is threatened with extinction, are up in arms. The American Federation of Labor is bitter against the trade schools which TV A Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan, president of Antioch (Work-&-Study) College, established for Norris Dam laborers. Businessmen, big & little, view with alarm the growing powers of Director Lilienthal in his southern satrapy...