Out, my share of the path. And dick cheney on coronary disease. His book is also coming out in 2013. Sarah weinman of publishers marketplace and Bob Minzesheimer of usa today, we appreciate your time today on booktv. Sarah kilborne recounts the crew of her greatgreatgrandfather, William Skinner, a textile manufacture in the mid19th century. The author recalls skinners immigration from london and his career ascendancy from a worker and a silk mill to the owner of his own factory, the mill village, skinnerville. In 1870 for a dam burst near skinnerville and destroyed the town and forced William Skinner to rebuild. This is about an hour. Thank you, bill. And thank you for your support of american phoenix. And thank you all for coming out tonight. And thank you and thank you, cspan, and booktv for being here. Its a real honor. And im thrilled to be able to share with you american phoenix, american phoenix the remarkable story of William Skinner, a man who turned disaster into destiny. So o
Because the demonstration range was located outside the compound and trainees were subject to sniper fire they kept loaded weapons in hand. The lecture phase was conducted by lieutenant johnston recommended him for this tuesday because he spoke some english and they could communicate directly. The u. S. Adviser had given him english instruction as well as an intensive course in the use of the mine. St. Louis throughout his tour of advisor, johnston had become aware of double checking the translation of his words especially since he had discovered that instructors and interpreters injected their own feelings on the subject instead of translating literally. During the first few classes on the claymore, johnston set the mine in the ground and prepared it for detonation. Realizing the important of teaching by demonstration, he showed no reluctance about getting his hands dirty. However he realized it would be wrong to continue to do the work himself and he would have to persuade one of the
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
Miles an hour. President richard nixon, who had talked with the astronauts by telephone while they were on the moon, was waiting aboard the recovery carrier to welcome the returning voyagers. Kfin the president later expressed the nations response to this historic mission. Some way when those two americans stepped on the moon, the people of this world were brought closer together. That it is that spirit, the spirit of apollo, that america can now help to bring to our relations with other nations. The spirit of apollo transcends geographical barriers and political differences. It can bring the people of the world together in peace. To protect against any possible lunar contamination the astronauts put on airtight special garments before coming on board the rescue ship. They transferred directly from the helicopter to a mobile quarantine van in which they would be flown back to the manned Aircraft Center in houston, texas. July 27th, the journey was ended. They were home again. Ahead lay
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 clearing 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 earthen rock embankment across the canyon below the openings forcing the river from its age old bed through the huge diversion tubes. A second earth and rock dam was thrown across the tunnel downstream keeping water from backing into the foundation area. Isolated and protected from the river by the two copper dams, the site was pumped dry. Men and machines dug 135 feet below the old river level to reach bedrock for the dams foundation, excavating over 2 million yards of rock and sand. As clean up of the dam site exposed the ancient bed of the Colorado River, geologists read the history of what happened ages ag