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...Work on Hoover Dam was delayed last week when heavy rains flooded the Colorado River. Water broke down a trestle, overflowed the diversion tunnels and threw 500 men out of work...
...voted against: the Federal Farm Board (1929), Boulder Dam...
...program is that Russia, which has had her shoulder at the wheel for three years, must push even harder this year. The heavy industries of coal, metal, transportation, machine building, backbone of the Five-Year Plan, must meet the country's needs. Russia's "industrial giants"?Dnieprostroy (dam), Magnetogorsk (steel city in remote Ural foothills ) etc.?must be pushed to completion. Then the tired Russian shoulder will get a rest, heavy Russian feet may be better shod...
...when he was Governor of Bombay, Sir George Ambrose Lloyd (later better known as Lord Lloyd, Britain's iron-fisted High Commissioner for Egypt) inaugurated the scheme. Besides two dams which are. respectively, the largest and the second highest in the world, the project includes a network of canals and spillways 6,000 miles long. On it 77,000 men were employed for nine years. It cost $75,000,000 and will irrigate a rainless desert area as big as Massachusetts. Rhode Island and Delaware together. Statisticians figured that the masonry in the Lloyd dam would build a wall...
...more for the people of northwestern India than anything St. Gandhi has been able to think of, but all its waters could not quench Nationalist pride. India seethed with the news that A. A. Musto, native engineer in charge of construction who spent seven hot summers by the dam site, designed much special machinery, was not rewarded...