Hoover Dam - Twentieth Century Marvel
by Vadim Levin
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Hoover Dam - Twentieth Century Marvel
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Vadim Levin
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Photograph - Photograph
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Twentieth Century Marvel:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 30, 1935: "This morning I came, I saw, and I was conquered, as everyone would be who sees for the first time this great feat of mankind. . . .Ten years ago the place where we gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert. In the bottom of the gloomy canyon whose precipitous walls rose to height of more than a thousand feet, flowed a turbulent, dangerous river. . . . The site of Boulder City was a cactus-covered waste. And the transformation wrought here in these years is a twentieth century marvel." "Speech by Roosevelt at the Dedication of Boulder Dam, September 30, 1935," in Edgar B. Nixon, ed., Franklin D. Roosevelt and Conservation, 1911-1945, 2 vols. (New York, 1957), pp. 438-41.
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June 26th, 2019
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