Episode 178
“A Damn Big Dam”: Taming the Colorado River with the Hoover (or Boulder) Dam (infrastructure pt. 1)
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“1,400 Hoover Dam Workers Dropped.” The Baltimore Sun. (Baltimore, MD) August 10, 1931. Accessed at: https://www.newspapers.com/image/372751228/
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Dunar, Andrew J., and Dennis Mcbride. “Joe Kine.” In Building Hoover Dam: An Oral History Of The Great Depression. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2016.
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“Hunger, Wage Cuts, Death Is Lot of Workers at Hoover Dam.” The Daily Worker. (New York, NY) August 10, 1931. Accessed at: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1931/v08-n191-NY-aug-10-1931-DW-LOC.pdf
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