‘Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes delivers his talk at the dedication of Hoover Dam (then Boulder Dam).
30 September 1935.’
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#OTD in 1937: a New Deal Dedication (1)
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Dedication by FDR of the Bonneville Dam
28 September, 1937
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‘The slide took the lives of 8 men on September 22, 1938. Fort Peck Dam, Fort Peck, Montana.’
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