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Construction on Hoover Dam (originally Boulder Dam, subsequently renamed for the president who authorized the project) began in 1931 in a canyon 45 miles (72 km) southeast of Las Vegas.
Upriver, 3 km (2 miles) south of town, take a 2-hour cruise through Miles Canyon on the M.V.
Holding constant the pieces per rural box and route miles, a one percent increase in density reduces out-of-office time per box by 0.44 percent and total time per box by 0.27 percent.
The City of San Francisco covers only about 46 square miles (119 sq km) at the tip of its peninsula, but its suburbs and satellite communities, with a population of 6 million, spread all around the bay.
Hemingway kept the Pilar 10 km (6 miles) to the east of Havana at Cojímar, the probable model for the settlement in The Old Man and the Sea.