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
Child welfare and child relief work, mr. Hoover, my mind went back to a rather notable statement you made on the subject. It seems as i recall, it was back in 1930 when you were president. I believe you had summoned a Child Welfare council at that time. I think its in here in this book, im wondering if it wouldnt be appropriate for to you tell us about it at this time. Well i can read it to you. That statement has been republished many times, rather an old statement, im afraid. The older i grow, the more i appreciate children. We approach all the problems of childhood with affection. Theirs is the problems of joy and of good humor. They are the most wholesome part of the race. They are the sweetest, they are fresher from the hands of god. Whimsical, ingenious, mischievous, we live of life of apprehension what their opinions may be of us, we put them to bed with a sense of relief and a lingering of devotion. We envy them the freshness of adventure. And the discovery of life. We mourn ov
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