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Hoover Dam under construction in 1934.
One of the many projects that helped pull America out of the Great Depression, the construction of the Hoover Dam was a five year ordeal that cost $49 million in 1931, which is about $639 million in 2016. The spot in Black Canyon where the Hoover Dam was built had been sought after as a place for a dam since 1900, but construction didn’t begin until Congress gave permission for the project.
By 1934, employment for the Dam peaked at 5,251 laborers, and by 1936 the Dam was barely finished in time for the super structure’s dedication. Now that's American ingenuity!
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Jacob Shelton
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Jacob Shelton is a Los Angeles based writer. For some reason this was the most difficult thing he’s written all day, and here’s the kicker – his girlfriend wrote the funny part of that last sentence. As for the rest of the bio? That’s pure Jacob, baby. He’s obsessed with the ways in which singular, transgressive acts have shaped the broader strokes of history, and he believes in alternate dimensions, which means that he’s great at a dinner party. When he’s not writing about culture, pop or otherwise, he’s adding to his found photograph collection and eavesdropping on strangers in public.
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