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...reservoirs should have been built to control the floods at their source, on the headwaters of tributaries, instead of trying to deal with the floods after they were underway, that the Army's calculations of the "super-flood" for which its levee system was built were very far astray because still higher flood stages were actually being recorded at Cairo and below. Fingers were pointed at Dayton, 50 miles above Cincinnati, which, after the disastrous flood of 1913 in the Miami Valley, spent $30,000,000 building five reservoirs to impound headwaters and release them only as fast...
...assert that the ordinary U. S. citizen grows excited about politics only once every four years and thinks about Government only when his mail goes astray is a trite slur on the national intelligence. Last week vigilant patriots felt reluctantly impelled to believe that there might be some truth in it. Difficult to explain otherwise was the public indifference which greeted President Roosevelt's proposal of the most momentous change in U. S. Government and politics since Andrew Jackson perfected the spoils system. Possibly, however, citizens were simply baffled because the President had packaged his dynamite-a proposal...
...company whose No. 1 box-office attraction he became after he broke with Warner Bros, last year. As such, it goes a long way to disprove the Hollywood theory that, given a free hand in selecting stories and casts, an actor's vanity is sure to lead him astray. Great Guy is vintage Cagney, exhibiting him at all the shoulder-punching and sotto voce wisecracking on which was founded his reputation as the cinema's No. i mick...
...intervals when they are not clowning on skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with a dozen top-hatted ushers tail-wagging down the mountain in formation...
...slurring significant facts, emphasizing irrelevant ones, most detective story writers employ the description of clues as a means of leading a reader astray. Last week an ingenious new type of detective fiction appeared. Honestly and simply, it presents the reader with all the clues in the order and in the fashion that the police uncover them, lets him form his own conclusions about the crime. File on Bolitho Blane is a collection of various objects found at the scene of a murder, together with telegrams, memoranda, stenographic reports of interviews with suspects, bound together in a bulky loose-leaf binding...