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Show BIDS ARE CALLED 01GRANpjOIJLEE WASHINGTON, Nov. J UP The interior department today called for bids on completion of Grand Coulee dam and power plant, one of the largest construction contract con-tract ever offered by the government, govern-ment, l. The new contract. Secretary Harold Har-old L. Ickes said, will open markets for more than 7,000.000 barrels of cement ce-ment and 60 trainloads of steel and machinery. "-'... Work included In the new con-tract con-tract will include manufacture and placement of 5,800.000 cubic yards of cement, more than 1.500.000 cubic yards in excess of the total concrete which went into Boulder dam. and placement of about 158,000.000 pounds of steel in the permanent structure. |