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Dust storms, 120-degree heat, and the Great Depression could not stop the dream of turning a wild river into America’s biggest power plug. From 1931 to 1936 more than 21,000 workers blasted diversion tunnels, dangled on ropes as high scalers, and poured enough concrete to pave a highway from New York to San Francisco. The result: Hoover Dam—726 feet of art-deco muscle that created Lake Mead, lit up Las Vegas, and rewrote the map of the American West. In eight fast minutes learn:

• Why flood-prone farmers and booming cities begged for a mega-dam

• How Six Companies built four giant tunnels and a 60-story wall in record time

• The $5-a-day desert life of Mohave and Navajo labor crews

• How Hoover Dam still powers 1.3 million people and fights today’s drought

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