Wallis and Marilyn Kimble Northwest History Database

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- It's no effort for power shovel to do its work
- 1934
- It's no effort for power shovel to do its work. - Mere man is a weakling compared to the energy of the huge power shovels and trucks used on recent earthy removal operations at the Grand Coulee dam site. The upper picture shows the giant crane and...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18. p. 1.
- It's no effort for power shovel to do its work
- 1934
- It's no effort for power shovel to do its work. - Mere man is a weakling compared to the energy of the huge power shovels and trucks used on recent earthy removal operations at the Grand Coulee dam site. The upper picture shows the giant crane and...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-06-18. p. 2.
- Frozen earth "Dam" ends slides at Grand Coulee project
- 1936
- Frozen earth "Dam" ends slides at Grand Coulee project. - How a unique dam of frozen earth stopped a slide of 200,000 cubic yards of earth into the east excavation pit of the Grand Coulee dam is shown, upper left, in this general view. Two...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-12-11
- Freezing stops Grand Coulee earth slide
- 1936
- Freezing stops Grand Coulee earth slide. - A unique dam of frozen earth stopped a slide of 200,000 cubic yards of earth into the east excavation of Grand Coulee dam on the Columbia river. The bureau of reclamation designed this strange structure as...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1936-12-17
- Grand Coulee called "Biggest on Earth"
- 1937
- Grand Coulee called "Biggest on Earth". - Grand Coulee dam and its significance to the nation are discussed in the February issue of Harper's Magazine by Richard L. Neuberger, under the title of "The Biggest Thing on Earth." Mr. Neuberger's article...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1937-02-06
- Coulee biggest show on earth, says dam's publicity chief
- 1937
- Coulee biggest show on earth, says dam's publicity chief. - Gray-haired, bearded Maj. S. E. Hutton, new director of publicity for the Grand Coulee Dam project, doesn't go around bandying superlatives. If he thinks in terms like "colossal" and...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Publicity. 1937-04-08
- Photographer and artist give a preview of Grand Coulee dam--Biggest thing on earth--When completed
- 1937
- Photographer and artist give a preview of Grand Coulee dam--Biggest thing on earth--When completed. - This is a preview of the biggest thing on earth. In the Columbia river the base for Grand Coulee dam is about to be completed. Bids for the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Maps & aerial views. 1937-12-08
- Huge conveyor to "Haul" earth
- 1934
- Huge conveyor to "Haul" earth. - Thousands of tons of earth will roll into Rattlesnake gulch over this huge conveyor system being constructed at the Grand Coulee dam site by the MWAK company. The belt will carry dirt from the overburden where...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1934-12-05
- Handles hundreds of tons of earth and rock daily
- 1935
- Handles hundreds of tons of earth and rock daily. - This conveyor, winding up out of the Coulee to Rattlesnake canyon, carries away the hundreds of tons of earth and rock excavated every day during the construction of Coulee dam. The picture was...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-07-22
- Traffic link guarded from earth attack at Grand Coulee dam
- 1935
- Traffic link guarded from earth attack at Grand Coulee dam. - The only vehicular connection between the two banks of the Columbia at the Grand Coulee dam site is the temporary wooden bridge built by the MWAK company. It was menaced by the same...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1935-08-30
- Photographer and artist give a preview of Grand Coulee dam--Biggest thing on earth--When completed
- 1937
- Photographer and artist give a preview of Grand Coulee dam--Biggest thing on earth--When completed. - This is a preview of the biggest thing on earth. In the Columbia river the base for Grand Coulee dam is about to be completed. Bids for the...
- State history. Grand Coulee dam. Progress of construction. 1937-12-08
- Long earth stream moves across river
- 1935
- Long earth stream moves across river. - The flow of earth from the east side of the river, where some 2,000,000 yards of it must be excavated, moved across the Columbia into the west side unit for the first time Tuesday.
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Engineers & engineering. 1935-08-21
- 2,500,000 yards of earth moved
- 1935
- 2,500,000 yards of earth moved. - MWAK concentrating on completion of coffer--Rail tunnel work resumed. - Because the shuttle conveyor and trucks are dumping earth into the south section of the cofferdam, less dirt has gone over the belt conveyor...
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Excavation. 1935-03-14
- Coulee dam - Earth on move again on west
- 1936
- Coulee dam - Earth on move again on west. - Conveyor clearing out area between block 40 and coffer--"zoo" increases. - Removal of the earth between the west side excavation and block 40 was started today by the contractors and the conveyor belt...
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Excavation. 1936-03-17
- 13,500,000 yards of earth moved
- 1937
- 13,500,000 yards of earth moved. - The 13,500,000th yard of earth has passed over the MWAK's belt conveyor system.
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Excavation. 1937-02-03
- Engineers froze earth to halt landslide
- 1937
- Engineers froze earth to halt landslide. - First guess wrong! No, this is not a fantastic fungus growth on the edge of a cliff. They are the exposed sections of brine pipes which ingenious engineers set into the moving earth as a landslide...
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Ice dam. 1937-07-01
- Big earth slide at Coulee dam
- 1937
- Big earth slide at Coulee dam. - An earth slide, estimated at 500,000 yards, last Wednesday, ripped out an 11,000-volt electric power line and temporarily halted concrete mixing on the west end of Grand Coulee dam, and also left the government...
- State history. Grand Coulee Dam. Construction. Slides. 1937-09-30
- 10 Ellensburg earth tremors break plaster
- 1934
- 10 Ellensburg earth tremors break plaster. - The resumption of slight earth shock here, which had been quiet for three weeks up to last Tuesday night, was marked yesterday by 10 distinct shocks, two during the morning. One of those in the late...
- State history. Earthquakes. 1934-11-02
- City is shaken by two sharp earth tremors, no damage done
- 1936
- City is shaken by two sharp earth tremors, no damage done. - Tremor first felt at 11:10 last night; 2nd at 11:25. - Two distinct earth tremors each of which lasted about seven seconds and which shook the Wenatchee region last night at 11:10 p. m....
- State history. Earthquakes. 1936-07-16
- Walla Walla feels brief earth shock
- 1937
- Walla Walla feels brief earth shock. - An earth tremor of about three seconds duration was felt here and throughout the valley at 2:20 this afternoon. Occupants of business buildings felt the swaying motion which was preceded by a slight rumble.
- State history. Earthquakes. 1937-02-09