Biggest Bang--Part of Iron Mountain near here disappeared Saturday, Nov.8, when IVA engineers set off 520,000 pound dynamite charge--they said it was a record for construction job--in blasting for IVA's Watauga Dam project now under way.

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Biggest Bang--Part of Iron Mountain near here disappeared Saturday, Nov.8, when IVA engineers set off 520,000 pound dynamite charge--they said it was a record for construction job--in blasting for IVA's Watauga Dam project now under way.

Associated Press · [ca. November 1947]

RightsCC0 — Public Domain

CollectionDigital Commonwealth — Boston Public Library

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