Yeah, 2 a day. I think i got 2. 25 after i was promoted to run the drill. On your very first job, you learned how to work with your hands, didnt you . Well, that wasnt quite the whole story. I worked in with my hands when i was a boy. Time was the agony of walking, going from mine to mine, looking for a job. I take it, then, that you during that period, you were able to lay aside a little money for future activities . Well i certainly laid enough money aside to get down to San Francisco and look for a better job. Well mr. Hoover, how did you happen to get into professional engineering after those underground mining days experience . Well, i developed a great friend of dr. Brenner here at stanford. He was one of those men who always boosted youngsters along. He introduced me to the leading engineer in San Francisco, mr. Lewis janner. Mr. Janner gave me a temporary appointment. He had an application for an engineer to go to australia. There i went on my first 10,000 job. Subsequently do
Black spruce and norway pine. Douglas fir and red cedar. Scarlet oak and shagbark hickory. Hemlock and aspen. There was lumber in the north. The railroads killed the steam boats but there was lumber in the north. Heads up, lumber on the upper river. Heads up. Lumber enough to cover all europe. Down from minnesota and wisconsin, down to st. Paul, down to st. Louis and st. Joe. Lumber for the new continent of the west. Lumber for the new mills. There was lumber in the north and coal in the hills. Iron and coal. Down to pittsburgh, down to wheeling. Iron and coal to the steel mill for the railroads driving west and south for the new sitters of the great valley. We build new machinery and cleared new land in the west. 10 million bales down the to gulf. 15 million bales down to the gulf. Cotton if for spools of italy and germany. We built 100 cities in 1,000 towns. St. Paul and mississippi. Cincinnati and st. Louis. Omaha and kansas city. Across the rockies down to the minnesota, 2,500 mile
Ringleader of that group that tried to topple an Andrew Jackson statue near the white house. Now acting dhs secretary Ken Cuccinelli warning potential vandals ahead of more protests plan nationwide this weekend. Watch. We protect and defend many of these locations and many of these iconic statues around the country, and we are going to continue to do that. We are going to lean forward to do it. You are going to see that throughout this weekend, we are going to continue not only to protect the history of this country but, as President Trump has declared, we are going to prosecute violators of the law who vandalize property. Julie mark merited his life at the white house with more on this. Hi, mark. Good afternoon, julie. The president and the first lady are making their way up to south dakota. The president has been promoting this event saying its a chance to celebrate American History even during these uncertain times. We are going to have a tremendous evening. Its going to be a firewo
We have really never known what to do with our first ladies and that is particularly true in more recent times. On the one hand they are expecting to have causes. We can imagine a first lady been without a cause. On the other hand those causes are not permitted to intrude upon lawmaking or an official capacity. So its always been a tightrope and seeing how each of these women walk that tightrope tells you would not tells you a lot not only about them but about the institution and about society. The Washington Post company agreed monday to sell its flagship newspaper to amazon. Com founder and chief executive jeffrey these those. Ownership of the paper after four generations. Next week at back at former Washington Post owner the late Katharine Graham discussing her biography, personal history. Cspan author personal history did your children learn anything from this book about you . Guest thats a hard question. Im sure they probably did but i couldnt tell you exact a wife. Cspan all of t
And the communities they run, restrictions are beginning to lift in response to this reality. Life is returning to normal for them. Many other politicians seem gravely disappointed by this development. Seeing americans live freely for the first time in months, enrages them. It means their own power is dissipating, slipping away. They stamp their feet and frustration as they watched, they pour their venom onto social media. They loved this pandemic, this tragedy come every sad minutes of it. It made them feel indispensable, armed sent like gods. They desperately dont want to and from other saying that out loud. You may find their attitude baffling because of course the rest of us will return to life, its the greatest possible blessing. Weve a lot to look forward to. That doesnt mean we should forget what happened and how, we shouldnt forget, we should remember. As we do remember we should work to prevent it from ever happening again and that means being very clear about how this began.