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Show the largest man-made structure in the world a power plant with a maximum capacity of 1,974,000 kilowatts, and an irrigation system sys-tem to bring water to 1,200,000 acres of productive land that will provide for the support of approximately ap-proximately 300,000 persons. From 1933 through February, 1941, a total of 52.919,945 man-hours man-hours of work was provided at the site of construction in central Washington, including activities of government forces and private contractors. Employment on the dcm in 1930, 1937, 1939 and 1940, averaged more than 4,000 man-years man-years annually. Actual employment on the project reached a peak of 7.455 workers in July. 1937. Off-site employment incident to ; the Grand Coulee construction ! during the seven years totaled j C3,305,000 man-hours or the la-! la-! bcr for 12 months of 44,553 men. I On the basis of an index de-, I veloped by the Bureau of Labor 1 ! Statistics,, Department of Labor,' j the completed project at Grand j . Coulee, including maximum power ! ' and irrigation facilities for the Co-' Co-' lumbia Easin, will represent labor ! totalling 476,257,000 man-hours. At j the site there will have been, re-. re-. quired 175,165,000 man-hours, , equivalent to the labor of 87,500 men for a year. Off-site or indirect employment will total 301,092,000 man-hours, equivalent to the work of 150,150 men for a year. Grand Coulee Generators To Turn Saturday A total of 142,24,000 man-hours-equivalent to the work of 71,112 men for an entire year was required re-quired to advance construction of Grand Coulee Dam so that the first two service generators of the giant project on the Columbia River in Washington State could begin operation on March 22. .These figures were cited today by the Bureau of Reclamation, Department De-partment of the Interior, in connection con-nection with an analysis of the distribution of expenditures and employment during the contraction contrac-tion of the key struoture of the power and irrigation development of the Pacific Northwest. Meeting the urgent needs of the National Defense, the Bureau as the agency agen-cy in charge of construction advanced ad-vanced the initial generation of power two years ahead of schedule. sched-ule. At the site and in mines, fac-( tories and in transportation, the number of man-years involved during dur-ing the. 7-year construction peried is comparable to the personnel of four divisions of the United States Army at full war strength. Only a little more than a third of thej workers' time was employed at1 the dam site. Nearly two-thirds were scattered through more than forty states. The employment furnished fur-nished in . the construction of Grand Coulee Dam and power plant since 1933 represents represents rep-resents support for a year for more than 350,000 persons. The total expenditures for labor, la-bor, material and equipment in the construction of Grand Coulee Dam and power plant from 1933 to February 1, 1941 were $128,450,-00. $128,450,-00. Of this amuont 35 per cent was for labor at the site of the activities. The remainder was ex. pended for material and equipment- throughout the country. Approximately Ap-proximately 90 per cent of the latter outlay was for wages and salaries in producing raw materials. ma-terials. In processing and fabricating, fabri-cating, and in the transportation transporta-tion of the finished products. When completed, as now planned the project will represent an investment in-vestment of $435,734,000. Its major ma-jor features will include the dam |