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* 1947 – In Nevada, the Boulder Dam is renamed Hoover Dam a second time.
Other locations and landmarks that have become part of American folklore include: Independence Hall, Ellis Island, Hoover Dam, Pearl Harbor, the Vietnam War Memorial, and the Grand Canyon.
Famous concrete structures include the Burj Khalifa ( world's tallest building ), the Hoover Dam, the Panama Canal and the Roman Pantheon.
* Other renewable sources: Large dams such as Hoover Dam can provide large amounts of hydroelectric power ; it has 2. 07 Watt # Gigawatt | GW capability.
When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office, Hoover tried to combat the ensuing Great Depression with volunteer efforts, public works projects such as the Hoover Dam, tariffs such as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, an increase in the top tax bracket from 25 % to 63 %, and increases in corporate taxes.
He appointed a commission that set aside 3, 000, 000 acres ( 12, 000 km² ) of national parks and 2, 300, 000 acres of national forests ; advocated tax reduction for low-income Americans ( not enacted ); closed certain tax loopholes for the wealthy ; doubled the number of veterans ' hospital facilities ; negotiated a treaty on St. Lawrence Seaway ( which failed in the U. S. Senate ); wrote a Children's Charter that advocated protection of every child regardless of race or gender ; created an antitrust division in the Justice Department ; required air mail carriers to adopt stricter safety measures and improve service ; proposed federal loans for urban slum clearances ( not enacted ); organized the Federal Bureau of Prisons ; reorganized the Bureau of Indian Affairs ; instituted prison reform ; proposed a federal Department of Education ( not enacted ); advocated $ 50-per-month pensions for Americans over 65 ( not enacted ); chaired White House conferences on child health, protection, homebuilding and home-ownership ; began construction of the Boulder Dam ( later renamed Hoover Dam ); and signed the Norris – La Guardia Act that limited judicial intervention in labor disputes.
* 1930 – Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser begins construction of the Boulder Dam ( now known as Hoover Dam ).
* 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
* 1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
* 1936 – Generators at Boulder Dam ( later renamed to Hoover Dam ) begin to generate electricity from the Colorado River and transmit it 266 miles to Los Angeles, California.
* 1935 – The Hoover Dam, astride the border between the U. S. states of Arizona and Nevada, is dedicated.
March 1: Hoover Dam is completed
* March 1 – Construction of Hoover Dam is completed.
* December 21 – The U. S. Congress approves the construction of Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam.
** Building of the Boulder Dam ( now known as Hoover Dam ) is started.
** U. S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates Hoover Dam.
The Colorado River forms the county's southeastern boundary, with Hoover Dam forming Lake Mead along much of its length.
Hoover Dam, a concrete arch-gravity dam in Black Canyon of the Colorado | Black Canyon of the Colorado River.

Hoover and Township
Jonas Hoover, the founder of Hooversville, came to Quemahoning Township in 1834 and bought land from the heirs of Casper Ripple.
The construction of the dam did leave an impact on the area which included covering many of Huntingdon County landmarks, such as the old Raystown Dam, Fink's bridge, Murrell Worthing property near Entriken, Entriken Barn, Earl Fisher property near Entriken, Hawn's Bridge, six cottages by New Hawn's Bridge, Entriken Mansion, Charles Hoover Feed Mill near Aitch, Entriken Bridge, Juniata Township Community Center near Hawn's Bridge, and Schell Bridge ( Anon., 1966 ).

Hoover and near
Hoover grew up near the Eastern Market in Washington's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
* Camp Hoover is ( including an island ) on Song Lake near Preble, New York
This includes a $ 7 million dollar project near historic Hoover Hotel.
* Edison has three public libraries: the Main Library is on Plainfield Avenue in South Edison, near Edison station ; North Edison Branch is on Grove Avenue, and the Clara Barton Branch is in the Clara Barton downtown area, on Hoover Avenue.
In 1881, Hoover and Thomas Watson opened a store near the confluence of Butte and Cottonwood creeks and moved the post office to the store.
Hoover Field, near the present site of the Pentagon, was the first major terminal to be developed in the Capital area, opening its doors in 1926.
It is located near the campus's Hoover Tower, home of the Hoover Institution, and is designated a National Historic Landmark.
Trohan's papers are housed at the Herbert Hoover Library, near Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
In Oklahoma Hoover did even better and trounced Smith with 63. 7 % of the vote and many Oklahoma Republicans won state offices due to his coattails, including seats on the Oklahoma Supreme Court, a near majority in the Oklahoma House, and considerable gains in the Oklahoma Senate.
Radical anarchist elements attempted to assassinate Hoover by attempting to place a bomb near his rail car, but the bomber was arrested before he could complete his work.
A notable landmark on Western Avenue at Perivale, near Greenford, is the Art Deco Hoover Building, now a Tesco supermarket.
* Olympic Village, 1932 Summer Olympics ( near intersection of Adams and Hoover )
The station maintains studios on Concourse Parkway ( near Riverchase Trail ) in Hoover.
Despite appeals to the US Supreme Court and President Herbert Hoover, Alderman would be hanged later that year on a Coast Guard base near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
However, the dangerous aspect of the Valley has always been overstated by those who do not live there, and while it may be verifiable that the Valley is the home or such organized gangs as the 74 Hoover Crips which have had a rivalry against the Central District Bloods, Columbia City has an active nightlife, and security-requirements can be as low or lower than other parts of Seattle ( one resident near Columbia City has had no security for 23 years ).
* Dr. X: Occultist and physicist, apparently researching interdimensional travel at his base, Fort X, near the Hoover Dam.
Zeider was born in the small town of Hoover near Logansport in Cass County, Indiana, where his father was a farmer, and grew up in Auburn, Indiana, where his father took a job in a sawmill.
The Arlington Radio Towers, one of the many dangerous safety hazards near the edge of Hoover Field.

Hoover and Westerville
A panorama of the Hoover Dam in Westerville, Ohio

Hoover and Ohio
Others placed in nomination included Senators Warren G. Harding of Ohio, Hiram Johnson of California, and Miles Poindexter of Washington, Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Herbert Hoover, and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.
Hoover appointed Atlee Pomerene of Ohio to head the agency in July 1932.
* James Bond Stockdale Speaks on the " Melting Experience: Grow or Die ", Hoover Institution, Stanford, 1981 speech to the graduating class of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Other candidates being considered for the position included National League president Ford Frick, Democratic National Committee chairman Robert E. Hannegan, former Postmaster General James Farley, US Senator John W. Bricker, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, former federal judge Fred M. Vinson, Ohio Governor Frank Lausche, and Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson.
* Hoover Dam ( Ohio ), a dam on the Big Walnut Creek
* Samuel P. Bush ( 1863 – 1948 ), a close adviser to President Hoover, was president of the Ohio Association of Manufacturers and a major Columbus industrialist.
" Among the critics of the clique was Harding's straight-laced Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover, who while generally appreciative of Harding viewed the motivations and behavior of the Ohio Gang with thinly concealed disgust.
In his memoirs, published in 1952, Hoover depicted Harding's Ohio cronies as a reflection of a character flaw:
Following Harding's death, Hoover and his co-thinker, Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, approached new President Calvin Coolidge and asked him to remove prominent Ohio Gang member Daugherty as Attorney General.
Others placed in nomination included Senators Warren G. Harding of Ohio, Hiram Johnson of California, and Miles Poindexter of Washington, Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, Herbert Hoover, and Columbia University President Nicholas Murray Butler.
* Kayak Hoover Dam-a semi-informative treatise on the wonders of kayaking at the Central Ohio Reservoir, complete with pictures and interactive maps leading to boat ramps.
* Ohio DNR fishing map of Hoover Reservoir
The Hoover Company started out as an American floor care manufacturer based in North Canton, Ohio.
From 1941 to 1945, Hoover ceased all vacuum cleaner production and converted the North Canton, Ohio factory to support the war effort.
The exported Juniors were converted to American electrical standards by The Hoover Company in North Canton, Ohio.
In the 1970s, the company opened The Hoover Historical Center in North Canton, Ohio.
The Hoover plant in North Canton, Ohio.
Marion Herbert Hoover ( known as M. Herbert Hoover or Herbert Hoover ) ( Born Asheville, Ohio ; died 1952 ) of Akron, Ohio, was an American politician of the Republican party who ran unsuccessfully for a number of elective offices in Ohio.

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