Friday, April 27, 1934

Pauline didn't go to school today. I walked to school and home with Ruth Ray.

Phase of the Hoover Dam - April 27, 1934
Location: Clark County, NV and Mohave County, AZ
Constructed 1931-1936; Dedicated September 30, 1935
A total of 3,250,000 cubic yards of concrete was used in the dam
More than 582 miles of cooling pipes were placed within the concrete
Employment peaked in 1934 at 5,251

Monday, May 8, 1933

Went in swimming. Today was report cards. I got S in Math, English and Expression, and I got M in Civics and General Science.

On May 8, 1933, Harold Ickes, Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior,
decided that the name of this dam should be "Boulder Dam." Construction started
in 1931 on the concrete gravity-arch dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River,
on the border between the U.S. states of  Arizona and Nevada, and it was opened in 1936.
In 1947 a resolution naming it Hoover Dam was passed by Congress and signed by President Truman.