Word: damming
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dragon will crawl across future maps of Missouri. Its head will be at Bagnell, in the central part of the State. Its tail and claws will twist 129 mi. westward. It will be labelled Lake of the Ozarks, largest artificial lake in the world, created by a dam across the Osage River built by Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual...
...Nizam--German Fascist, Indian Ruler, Russian City famed for fairs, African dam...
Then there this question of literature. There's "Vile Bodies" by Waugh, a book with the real smell of the earth in it. Or was it that Dam sun-like book about china? Amusing stuff, earth. Then there are post-war novels, thrilling they are, every hundred of them. Did Hemingway write "A Farewell to Arms" for nothing? Now there's a question. When America started there were people like Washington, Adams, and Jefferson around. Are they around now? Nope. Still, its pretty exciting...
...Walker of New York to give his firemen an eight-hour day. But others were more significant, indicated that Labor might be getting its back up. Harshly condemned for "inhuman working conditions" and referred to as "a $700.- 000,000 outrage" was Six Companies, Inc., builder of the Hoover Dam where twelve workers collapsed and died in the Nevada heat last summer (TIME, Aug. 24). And although the convention, encouraged by Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis of Pennsylvania, longtime (1921-30) Secretary of Labor, turned its back on a Federal Dole, one Labor measure advocated by the delegates seemed...
Died. William H. Wattis, president of Six Companies Inc., the syndicate which is building Hoover Dam; of cancer; in San Francisco...