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WHAT DOES BOULDER DAM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Boulder Dam

Hoover Dam

Hoover Dam, once known as Boulder Dam, is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Arizona and Nevada. It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of a massive effort involving thousands of workers, and cost over one hundred lives. The dam was controversially named after President Herbert Hoover. Since about 1900, the Black Canyon and nearby Boulder Canyon had been investigated for their potential to support a dam that would control floods, provide irrigation water and produce hydroelectric power. In 1928, Congress authorized the project. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium called Six Companies, Inc., which began construction on the dam in early 1931. Such a large concrete structure had never been built before, and some of the techniques were unproven. The torrid summer weather and the lack of facilities near the site also presented difficulties.

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Translator English - Hindi

बोल्डर बांध
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سد بولدر
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বোল্ডার বাঁধ
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Boulder Barajı
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BOULDER DAM»

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Boulder Dam
Suddenly, he finds himself threatened by a pack of ruthless gangsters with a vicious plan to blow up the dam! There will be feats of heroism and periods of exhaustion in the creation of the Boulder Dam.
Zane Grey, 2011
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Hoover Dam: An American Adventure
Pettitt, So Boulder Dam Was Built, p. 43. 33. Madeline Knighten, Oral History Interview, January, 1981, Boulder City Public Library. 34. Mary Ann Merrill, " Boulder Dam," transcript of a July 16, 1985, interview conducted by R. T. King for the Oral ...
Joseph E. Stevens, 1990
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Construction Of Boulder Dam
Illustrated with photographs and technical diagrams, this brief guide to the history and construction of boulder Dam was originally published in the late 1930s.
U. S. Department of the Interior, 2004
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Hoover Dam: The Photographs of Ben Glaha
Library, University of California, Berkeley; and the Barrett Company, Boulder Dam: A Modern Engineering Triumph (New' York: Barrett Companv, 1936), NARA-W, RG 115. 25. Boulder Dam: A Modern Engineering Triumph, unpaginated. 26.
Barbara Vilander, 1999
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Around Boulder City
The names Boulder Dam and Hoover Dam have both been used. When the Boulder Canyon Act was signed, the dam was planned for Boulder Canyon. As engineers surveyed the areas, the location was changed to Black Canyon. The dam ...
Cheryl Ferrence, 2008
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The Story of the Boulder Dam, V4-5: Compressed Air Magazine, ...
In Five Volumes. Volume 1-3, The Story Of Hoover Dam; Volume 4-5, The Story Of Boulder Dam. Additional Contributors Are Lawrence P. Sowles And Copeland Lake.
Ingersoll-Rand Company, Russell C. Fleming, 2012
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How Local Politics Shape Federal Policy: Business, Power, ...
The final showdown in Congress began four years after Swing and Johnson introduced the first Boulder Dam bill and stretched over two years and three Senate filibusters. For much of that time, Boulder Dam enjoyed the support of a slim ...
Sarah S. Elkind, 2011
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HR 123, HR 2498 and HR 2535
Authorized by Congress and President Calvin Coolidge in December 1928, the structure was commonly referred to as Boulder Dam throughout the time it was under congressional debate. In 1930 it was designated Hoover Dam by Ray Lyman ...
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Water and Power, 2008
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Hoover Dam 75th Anniversary History Symposium: Proceedings ...
This paper examines the relationship of Los Angeles (and St. Francis Dam designer William Mulholland) to the BCPA, and considers how a key investigation of the disaster was tied to the proposed Hoover/Boulder Dam. While assessing the ...
David R. Gilbert, Richard L. Wiltshire, Jerry R. Rogers, 2011
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Power Plays: Critical Events in the Institutionalization of ...
The congressional debate and presidential veto of Muscle Shoals, the pending Boulder Dam legislation, the proposed Saint Lawrence seaway legislation, and the proposed investigations of the oil and electrical industry kept the issue of public ...
Richard A. Colignon, 1997

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BOULDER DAM»

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New Miss Nevada came to Las Vegas to teach
The studio, however, was able to get permission to film at the then-Boulder Dam. … Las Vegas resident Mark Richards launches his weekly ... «Las Vegas Review-Journal, Jun 15»
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Outdoors notes
Boulder Lake Environmental Learning Center, 7328 Boulder Dam Road, offers these events. Call (218) 721-3731 or go to boulderlake.org to ... «Duluth News Tribune, Jun 15»
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Fly on the Ford
From there this Ford was sold to the Boulder Dam Tours in February of 1937 where it entered into the sightseeing air tour service. December of 1937 found the ... «Illinois Times, Jun 15»
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Bernie Sanders' Socialist Charade
... was: “Nationalization of our natural resources, beginning with the coal mines and water sites, particularly at Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals. «Cherokee Tribune, Jun 15»
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Will: Sanders' 'Socialist' charade
... was: “Nationalization of our natural resources, beginning with the coal mines and water sites, particularly at Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals. «The Columbian, Jun 15»
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Shem Dam rehab complete, last of 10 years of flood repair projects
In 1933 and 1934, the current concrete and basalt boulder dam was built by Company 961 of the Zion Civilian Conservation Corps camp. «St George News, Jun 15»
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Bernie Sanders's 'socialist' charade
... was: “Nationalization of our natural resources, beginning with the coal mines and water sites, particularly at Boulder Dam and Muscle Shoals. «Washington Post, Jun 15»
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It's time to remodel Amtrak on some of our great public works projects
In America, we have a two-word saying that has allowed us to build some of the world's most-praised public works projects — the Boulder Dam, ... «Arizona Daily Sun, May 15»
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Hoover Dam Construction
Originally called Boulder Dam, it was renamed for President Herbert Hoover in 1948. As soon as construction was completed in 1936, ... «Arizona Capitol Times, May 15»
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Con: It's time to remodel Amtrak on some of our great public works …
In America, we have a two-word saying that has allowed us to build some of the world's most-praised public works projects—the Boulder Dam, ... «Janesville Gazette, May 15»

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