Acrobatic workmen called high scalers prepared the canyon walls for each blast. Suspended on ropes, they drilled holes in the rock and loaded them with dynamite. After each explosion, these daredevils swarmed over the cliffs, prying loose rock and learing the walls of debris. In november 1932, the Colorado River was diverted. Under control for the first time in its history, the river flowed around and past the site. Men in trucks dumped earth and embankment across the canyon below the tunnel openings, forcing the river from its ageold bend through the huge diversion tubes. A second sandert rock dam was thrown across the river downstream, keeping water from backing into the foundation area. Isolated and protected from the river by the two dams, the site as pumped dry. Men and machines dug below the river level to reach bedrock for the dams foundation, excavating over two million cubic yards of earth, rock, and sand. As cleanup exposed the ancient bed of the Colorado River, geologists re
When the coach and four horses went home. They havent president kennedys speech writer and special council said what many president s said that a president s office is where he may be. Unlike congress or the supreme court, the presidency never adjou adjourns. What roll does politics play in president ial vacations, getaways . Im not sure what. I think the need to get away is probably predominant as we have seen in recent presidencies. If you have your own home, you tend to go to it. Otherwise, like president obama, you go to a place that interests you and you probably, because of security concerns, have to get a rented property. Do you think its just the president or the public does the public understand that the president needs to get away from the pressures of the job . Is it just the press that keeps focusing on what the president is doing on vacation and whats happening in washington and elsewhere around the world . I think both. I think the press reacts to what the public thinks a
The evaluation showed a deep split among the five commissioners – to the point that there was talk of terminating Pat Oman's employment contract that same day.