"If you got killed in Arizona just across the line, you got more compensation than you did in Nevada. There was one man who got killed there when they were mucking out the center part of the dam. He got crushed and killed. They didn't know whether it was Arizona or Nevada. It was so close it had to be measured. "An engineer gave me a three hundred-foot reel of tape. He held the dead end of the tape and gave me the full reel. I could call anything there, but he said, 'Tex, make it Arizona. ' "62 - Tex Nunley "At exactly 11:20 a.m., an eight-cubic-yard cylindrical steel bucket suspended from a web of steel cables appeared in the narrow strip of sky eight hundred feet overhead. It hung there momentarily, then plummeted soundlessly into the canyon, only to be brought up a few feet short of the slot's shadowy bottom by its steel tether. Frank Crowe gave a signal and two men moved forward, tripped the bucket's safety latches with their shovels, and leaped back as the bottom-dump doors clanged open, the bucket jerked upward. And a great liquid-gray mass sluiced down onto the rock. Flashbulbs exploded in a ragged volley. Hoover Dam was on the rise. "63 - Joseph E. Stevens This First Aid station was located above the upper portals of the diversion tunnels, with a similar station near the lower portals. Here, Dr. Rosario LaVesque poses beside the ambulance. Carpenters hammered together hundreds of boxlike wooden forms, which would fit together puzzlelike and hold the concrete for the dam. Each form measured only a few feet square, thus belying the persistent myth that men fell into the liquid concrete and were buried in the dam. On the morning of June 6, 1933, the first bucket of concrete was poured.