Quotes About Boulder Dam

She poured us some more Scotch. It didn't seem to affect her any more than water affects Boulder Dam.

In 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt addressed the Third World Power Conference in Washington, D.C., on the importance of engineering in solving the nation's social problems. At the conclusion of his speech, he pressed a button that stirred the turbines in the Boulder Dam to "creative activity." "Boulder Dam," said the president as his right index finger came down, "I call you to life!

Across that time span "Hoover Dam" and "Boulder Dam" were used interchangeably, the preference often depending on the political leanings of the speaker. The matter generated so much confusion and acrimony that in the Las Vegas Review-Journal in 1947 a letter writer named Frank Romano Sr. was provoked to propose that the structure in Black Canyon be named "Hoogivza Dam.