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Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database
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    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. General. 1937-11-25


    • Precaution is taken to prevent cracks in huge mass.

    • 1937

    • Precaution is taken to prevent cracks in huge mass. - Precautions taken by the federal reclamation bureau to prevent the development of cracks in the Grand Coulee dam, when it is subjected to the full pressure of the lake to be formed in the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. General. 1937-11-25
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1937-11-25


    • Twist gaps to permit dam to give under lake pressure.

    • 1937

    • Twist gaps to permit dam to give under lake pressure. - Precaution is taken to prevent cracks in huge mass. - Precautions taken by the federal reclamation bureau to prevent the development of cracks in the Grand Coulee dam, when it is subjected to...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1937-11-25
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Equipment. 1937-04-20


    • Signalmen's work deep down in dam area

    • 1937

    • Signalmen's work deep down in dam area. - "How's the weather up there?" is probably one of the most trite "cracks" of signalmen at Grand Coulee dam site as they talk through their horn-like speaking mechanism to the operators of gargantuan cranes...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Equipment. 1937-04-20
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-11-21


    • Coulee dam - Grouting tubes to seal barrier

    • 1935

    • Coulee dam - Grouting tubes to seal barrier. - Cement blocks to be given same treatment as rock basis. - Grouting, the process of sealing tiny cracks and crevices in the bedrock under the dam, will not be confined to sealing the rock alone, it was...
    • State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. General. 1935-11-21
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1936-02-23


    • Two men hurt at Coulee dam

    • 1936

    • Two men hurt at Coulee dam. - Truck runs over driver and timber cracks skull of marathon swimmer. - Two men suffered serious injury at the Grand Coulee dam Friday in accidents coming close on the heels of Thursday's acetylene plant explosion which...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Accidents. Automobiles. 1936-02-23
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1933-11-06


    • History of gold days pasted on idaho cabin.

    • 1933

    • History of gold days pasted on idaho cabin. - When Pierce City was a rip-roaring mining camp, during the height of Idaho's first gold rush, some miner pasted on the wall of his cabin a layer of newspaper to keep the winter win from whistling...
    • Northwest history. Mining. Historical events. 1933-11-06
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Geology. 1935-10-17


    • Noted engineer tests dam rock

    • 1935

    • Noted engineer tests dam rock. Cooper calls it perfect for foundation, seamless and water resistant. - Armed with a miner's hammer, Hugh L.Cooper, noted engineer, returned to Grand Coulee dam site Tuesday to see how his 1920 predictions of the...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Geology. 1935-10-17
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-06


    • Dam road still slipping

    • 1934

    • Dam road still slipping. - Closed to heavy traffic as cracks open, three yards deep. - Further sliding today of the highway leading down to the Grand Coulee dam site blocked all heavy traffic, and unless immediate repairs can be made will stop...
    • State history. Grand Coulee dam. Highways. 1934-02-06

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