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Large allotments of the last month included $14,153,108 to re-employ 8,000 men making a 6-ft. channel in the Missouri River for 387 mi. from Kansas City up to Sioux City; $63,000,000 for a hydroelectric dam on the Columbia River at Grand Coulee; $22,700,000 for a reclamation project near Casper, Wyo.; $11,500,000 for dredging a 9-ft. channel in the upper Mississippi...
...score of U. S. citizens led by Newton D. Baker, and including Physicist Robert Andrews Millikan, Geologist Charles Kenneth Leith, Col. Hugh (Dnieprostroy Dam) Cooper, Frank Cooke Atherton, Hawaiian tycoon...
...Denverites the 41-year-old Castlewood Dam, 30 mi. back in the hills above the city, has been a blessing and a menace. It provided a huge irrigation reservoir three miles square. It checked the occasional rampages of Cherry Creek, the historic stream which sluices between concrete embankments through the heart of the city to empty into the South Platte. Ever since the dam was pronounced unsafe by engineers, Denver has feared that its walls might one day crumble and a torrent of water go racing down Cherry Creek into the city. Not long ago the dam sprang a leak...
...clock the torrent began to dr,am away. By afternoon it was quiet. Because of the warnings flashed out by Operator Nettie Driscoll and by Hugh Paine, caretaker of the dam, thousands of slumbering Denverites had escaped death. Only two were killed, five reported missing. Property damage exceeded $1,000,000, would have been greater but for the city ordinance that requires all Denver houses to be built of stone, brick, tile or concrete...
...stamp to be issued Aug. 15. Design: a farmer, a business man, a factory worker and a woman "walking hand in hand in a common determination.'' ¶A start on the great Columbia River Basin project was assured when the President approved construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington out of public works funds. Originally the dam was to be 300 ft. high with a hydroelectric capacity of 1,000,000 h.p. Because no market existed for so much power, modified specifications call for a 130-ft. dam costing $63,000,000. Also put on the public...