Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
November 11, 2009, was an ordinary day for two construction workers on a highway near the historic Hoover Dam on the border of Nevada and Arizona. That is, until something out of the ordinary ...
The remains of William Herman Hietamaki have finally been identified, although authorities weren't able to determine his cause of death Human Remains Found Near Hoover Dam in 2009 Identified as ...
William Herman Hietamaki was last seen alive in 1995
Henri La Masne was a French man who went missing, while he was skiing in the Italian Alps on March 26, 1954, [17] [18] and his body was discovered in Valtournenche, Cime Bianche in 2005 [19] [20] and identified in 2017. Froze to death after being buried underneath snow during a storm 60 years 1954 Honorah Rieper: 45 New Zealand
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 6 February 2025. Dam in Clark County, Nevada, and Mohave County, Arizona, US For other uses, see Hoover Dam (disambiguation). "Boulder Dam" redirects here. For other uses, see Boulder Dam (disambiguation). Dam in Arizona, U.S. Hoover Dam Hoover Dam by Ansel Adams, 1941 Official name Hoover Dam Location ...
Henry Kaiser was an early advocate of bringing American aid to those suffering from German aggression in Europe. In 1940, a full year before the US had entered World War II, Kaiser served as National Chairman of United Clothing Collection for International War Relief to provide much-needed clothing for the refugees from Hitler's conquests in Europe.
In 1935, the American Association of State Highway Officials (AASHO, later AASHTO) authorized a southward extension of U.S. Route 93 from its previous southern terminus in Glendale, Nevada to Kingman, Arizona via Las Vegas, Boulder City, and a crossing of the Colorado River on the newly-constructed Hoover Dam (then known as Boulder Dam).
As I reported in "Colossus," my 2010 book about the building of Hoover Dam, Hoover and his deputy, Arthur Powell Davis, connived in 1922 to exaggerate the Colorado River's flow in order to ...