Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination during the darkest days of the Depression. It promised to fulfill President Franklin ...

Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the federal Columbia River Power System.

The cuts included workers at the Grand Coulee Dam, the largest hydropower generator in North America, according to two fired staffers interviewed by The Associated Press. “Without these dam ...

Frank A. Banks, chief construction engineer of Grand Coulee Dam, was considered the man who "put the Columbia River to work," according to newspaper accounts. He was from New England and heard ...

Grand Coulee Dam loomed large in America's imagination during the Great Depression. Of the many public works projects of the New Deal, Grand Coulee Dam loomed largest in America's imagination ...

During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everything about it was described in superlatives. It would be the "Biggest Thing on Earth," the ...