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The Hoover Dam construction project and Frank Crowe's role (portrayed by actor Jay Benedict) was dramatised in an episode of the BBC's 2003 docudrama television miniseries Seven Wonders of the Industrial World. [4] The project and Frank Crowe's role was also dramatized in The History Channel's series America: The Story of Us in episode 9 ...
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression , it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt .
Inscription: They died to make the desert bloom [1] Oskar J. W. Hansen (March 12, 1892 [2] – August 31, 1971 [3]) was a Norwegian-born, naturalized American sculptor. He is most associated with the design of many of the sculptures on and around the Hoover Dam, most notably Winged Figures of the Republic. [3] [4]
The tight time frame caused even more friction and peril and by the time the project was finished in 1936, over 100 workers had died in the process. The Hoover Dam was the largest dam and ...
Hoover Dam, in Blendon Township, near Westerville, Ohio, dams the Big Walnut Creek to form the Hoover Memorial Reservoir. This reservoir is a major water source for the city of Columbus, Ohio . It holds 20.8 billion US gallons (79,000,000 m 3 ) of water and has a surface area of 3,272 acres (13.24 km 2 ), or about five square miles.
November 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two construction workers on a highway near the historic Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona. That is, until something out of the ordinary ...
Authorities in Arizona say human remains found by the Hoover Dam in 2009 belong to a man who was last seen in 1995. William Herman Hietamaki was last seen by family in 1995 “when he went to ...
Henry Kaiser was an early advocate of bringing American aid to those suffering from German aggression in Europe. In 1940, a full year before the US had entered World War II, Kaiser served as National Chairman of United Clothing Collection for International War Relief to provide much-needed clothing for the refugees from Hitler's conquests in Europe.