"act" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The federal government ended the dispute in 1913, with the passage of the Raker Act, which permitted flooding of the valley.
- With the passage of the Raker Act in 1913, San Francisco began to plan to tap the Tuolumne River watershed for water and power.
- Work on the Hetch Hetchy project began in early 1914 shortly after the passage of the Raker Act.
- The fee was established by the Raker Act, which was supported by influential San Francisco civic leaders but opposed by early environmentalists.
- The Raker Act "made some people within the city enormously wealthy," said Gray Brechin, a geography professor at the University of California, Berkeley.
- Whether or not the Raker Act is indeed being violated is still a matter of controversy.
- Harold Ickes of the Roosevelt Interior Department tried for many years to enforce the Raker Act, but he was unsuccessful.
- Roosevelt's successor, Woodrow Wilson, signed the Raker Act into law on December 13, 1913, which authorized construction of the dam.
- Shortly before Muir died he expressed the hope that "some compensating good must follow" from the Raker Act.
- This he believe would violate the Raker Act, which states that the river can be dammed as long as the water in the reservoir is not exploited.
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