The Grand Coulee Dam Area
Author | : George Anderson Shipman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : George Anderson Shipman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 84 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Grand Coulee Dam Area Community Development Study |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Grand Coulee Dam Region (Wash.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul C. Pitzer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Grand Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
ISBN | : 9780874221107 |
In the capable hands of Paul Pitzer, the fight for Grand Coulee Dam and the story of its construction is a vital, animated saga of people striving for dazzling goals and then working to build something spectacular. These visionaries accomplished their objective against the backdrop of the worst economic depression in the nation's history. The dam and the extensive irrigation network it supports stand today as a monument to their dreams and labors.
Author | : George A. Shipman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 1953 |
Genre | : Coulee Dam (Wash.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Grand Coulee Dam Area Community Development Study |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Grand Coulee Dam Region (Wash.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Grand Coulee Dam Area Community Study |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1957 |
Genre | : Community development |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ray Bottenberg |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738556123 |
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.
Author | : Murray Morgan |
Publisher | : New York : Viking Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1954 |
Genre | : Dam failures |
ISBN | : |
The story of the Grand Coulee Dam and a near tragedy on March 14, 1952 when the Grand Coulee began to fail. At the time the book was published, it was the largest concrete dam in the world.
Author | : Blaine Harden |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1997-11-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780393316902 |
Details the destruction of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest by well-intentioned Americans who saw only the benefits of the dam-building, power plant and irrigation projects, not realizing the longterm effects of killing the river.
Author | : Grand Coulee Dam Area Community Development Study |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Douglas County (Wash.) |
ISBN | : |