Grand Coulee
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Grand Coulee From Hell To Breakfast
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Author : Fred Oscar Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1947
Grand Coulee From Hell To Breakfast written by Fred Oscar Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1947 with Columbia River categories.
Grand Coulee
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Author : Paul C. Pitzer
language : en
Publisher: Washington State University Press
Release Date : 2021-09-24
Grand Coulee written by Paul C. Pitzer and has been published by Washington State University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-24 with History categories.
Accolades freely and frequently lavished on Grand Coulee Dam and the Columbia Basin Irrigation Project included “The Biggest Thing on Earth!” “The Eighth Wonder of the World!” and “The Largest Reclamation Project Ever Undertaken!” They highlight a monumental construction effort that spanned the 1930s through the 1980s. Now, for the first time, the story of this gigantic undertaking is told in this definitive history. When completed, the eleven-million-cubic-yard monolith at Grand Coulee on the Columbia River in north central Washington became the largest single block of concrete ever laid and provided an abundance of electricity that helped win World War II. Still one of the world's largest energy-producing stations, it is at the heart of a dynamic power grid that supplies all of the western United States with energy. The product of a long struggle over how to irrigate the Columbia Basin, Grand Coulee Dam resulted from the visions of eastern Washington residents, people like Wenatchee editor Rufus Woods and members of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce, who saw the undertaking as a dynamic plan to bring prosperity to their region. Yet today the reclamation enterprise--more than half a century after construction began--stands only half finished. Its future depends on the nation's need for food and the willingness of the public to pay the rapidly spiraling economic and environmental costs associated with such large-scale irrigation plans. The fight for Grand Coulee Dam, and the story of its construction, is a vital and animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working, often against both each other and nature, to build something spectacular. They accomplished their goal against the backdrop of the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The dam, and the extensive irrigation network it supports, stands today as a monument to their dreams and their labors.
Grand Coulee Dam
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Author : Ray Bottenberg
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Grand Coulee Dam written by Ray Bottenberg and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with History categories.
Washington's Grand Coulee is an ice-age channel that carried the Columbia River when ice dammed its main course. Grand Coulee was long recognized as an ideal place to store Columbia River water to irrigate the arid but fertile Columbia Basin. A dam was proposed as early as 1903, but opposition by Spokane private power interests and the cost of the dam delayed design and construction until the administration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Roosevelt, a public power advocate, used the Grand Coulee Dam project to help put the unemployed to work. The result was the world's largest man-made structure, and also the world's largest power plant, costing more than $163 million and the lives of at least 72 workers. The dam powered production of aluminum, atomic weapons, shipbuilding, and much more, contributing mightily to America's victory in World War II. Postwar developments provided irrigation for 700,000 acres of farmland.
The Mightiest Of Them All
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Author : L. Vaughn Downs
language : en
Publisher: ASCE Publications
Release Date : 1993-01-01
The Mightiest Of Them All written by L. Vaughn Downs and has been published by ASCE Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-01-01 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The Mightiest of Them All: Memories of Grand Coulee Dam presents the experiences of L. Vaughn Downs from the time he started working on the dam when it was in the design stage, through the construction period and into many years of actual dam operation and maintenance. He provides glimpses into the personalities connected with the project and explains the many techniques and pieces of equipment that were developed or improved as the dam was built. Downs also devotes considerable attention to problems they encountered and the solutions developed in the hope that others will learn from these situations. This revised edition brings the story up to the current period with an examination of the upkeep and condition of the dam after 50 years, and its prospects for the future. Engineers, architects, and interested general readers will feel the thrill of this extraordinary dam, as the informative text and bounty of photographs illustrate various stages of construction and the dramatic rates of progress attained.
Grand Coulee Dam
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973*
Grand Coulee Dam written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973* with Coulee Dam (Wash.) categories.
B Street
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Author : Lawney L. Reyes
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2012-03-01
B Street written by Lawney L. Reyes and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
B Street tells intimate stories about the street of shops, restaurants, bars, and brothels where the workmen who built the Grand Coulee Dam spent their recreational hours and wages. From the beginning, B Street was the place to play and let off steam for the white workingmen who had faced the hard times of the Depression. It was a raucous playground that denied blacks and most dark-skinned Indians access to the frivolity, good times, and pretty ladies that were the main attractions of that provocative place. This vivid story of a colorful era is based largely on the memories of Lawney L. Reyes. As a young boy he wandered B Street with his little sister, Luana, and their dog, Pickles, while their Indian mother and Filipino father eked out a living running a Chinese restaurant. His mother's diary and the stories told by his parents and older members of the Sin-Aikst tribe contribute to his story. Reyes tells of hard times, dreams, and extreme courage and reveals the humor, toughness, and recklessness of the adventurers who came to work on the dam. He also describes the history and culture of the Indians whose villages were flooded and whose way of life was irrevocably changed by the building of the Grand Coulee Dam.
Grand Coulee
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Author : Paul C. Pitzer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Grand Coulee written by Paul C. Pitzer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Columbia River categories.
The Grand Coulee Dam And The Columbia Basin Reclamation Project
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Author : United States. Bureau of Reclamation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1937
The Grand Coulee Dam And The Columbia Basin Reclamation Project written by United States. Bureau of Reclamation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1937 with Columbia River categories.
Energy And Water Development Appropriations For 2006
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Energy And Water Development Appropriations For 2006 written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
The Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Author : George Anderson Shipman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
The Grand Coulee Dam Area written by George Anderson Shipman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Coulee Dam (Wash.) categories.