Men who worked at night on the dam suffered less, but the heat was still as high as thirty degrees Celsius.

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Before he was president, Mister Hoover worked for many years to make the construction of the dam possible.

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Men in two special factories worked day and night to make the concrete building material for the dam.

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She wanted to tell the story of the people behind the industry: In this case, the people who were building the dam.

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He said the dam should be built in an area called Boulder Canyon on the border between the states of Arizona and Nevada.

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Bourke-White took pictures of those people C at the dam,in the rooms where they lived, and in the places where they had fun.

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Workers also used more than twenty million kilograms of steel to strengthen the concrete in the dam.

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Today,visitors can see a statue of the men who worked as high scalers to build Hoover Dam.

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It was a picture of a new dam being built in the western state of Montana.

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It was agreed this could be more easily done with the aid of a dam.

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Engineers decided the rock would provide a good strong support for the proposed dam.

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They built a large road from Boulder City to the area of the dam.

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The small shapes of two men at the bottom showed the dam's huge size.

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This had to be done so the floor of the dam could be built.

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Workers called "high scalers" were some of the first to begin building the dam.

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They had used almost four million cubic meters of concrete in the dam.

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At the time, it was the largest and tallest dam in the world.

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She took pictures of the country's largest bridge, and the world's largest dam.

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A great deal of work was done before operations started on the dam.

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Slowly the great dam began to rise from the floor of the canyon.

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This provided electric power to the area where the dam was being built.

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However,ninety-six men lost their lives during the building of the great dam.

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DAM hopes to teach young people about their history and rights.

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DAM is known as the first Palestinian group to sing hip-hop.

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The work on the dam began in April of nineteen thirty-one.

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The dam is in the Black Canyon, near Las Vegas,Nevada.

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