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...voted for: Equalization Fee (1928), Boulder (Hoover) Dam (1928), Jones ("Five & Ten") Act (1929), Federal Farm Board (1929), London Naval Treaty (1930), 15-Cruiser Bill (1929), Muscle Shoals (1931), War Debt Moratorium (1931), Reconstruction Finance Corp. (1932), Democratic Tariff Bill (1932), Revenue Bill (1932), paycut for Federal employes...
Carrying out a course of research begun three years ago party of investigators from the Business School fstigue laboratory, under the direction of D. B. Dill, assistant professor of Biological Chemistry, spent six weeks last summer in field work at the Hoover Dam in Boulder City, Nevada. The party was interested particularly in the effect on workmen of conditions of intense heat and high humidity...
...Panama Canal Zone, where conditions of high temperature and great humidity prevail. This year Boulder City was chosen because of the high temperatures whish had been reported there the are the humidity, and the led opportunity for studying the effect of these conditions on the workmen assembled at Hoover Dam...
...blood occurred. It was found that in general a large exchange of moisture failed to have any marked effect on the workmen, provided their diet contained sufficient water and a generous amount of salt. Because of less intense heat and more attention to diet, hept prostrations at the dam were considerably reduced this year, but those which occurred were studied carefully by the Harvard experts...
...work at Hoover Dam the party had the cooperation of the Secretary of the Interior, Ray Lyman Wilbur, and of the Bureau of Reclamation, as well as of the company building the dam...