Word: basins
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Army engineers had not yet completed their survey and report on the Mississippi Basin, upon which the committee's flood control bill must largely be based. So the committee heard witnesses and suggestions. The first hearing made it plain why Chairman Reid had called his meeting early...
Rowing in choppy water too rough for fast time, the Freshman crew stroked by P. H. Watts '31, covered the one mile downstream course in the Basin yesterday afternoon four feet ahead of S. W. Swaim's crew to win over its five competitors. The seating of the crews was the same as in the race last week, except that the strokes were assigned different crews...
...Freshman crew race held in the Basin yesterday afternoon, crew H, stroked by J. M. Byrne, won by half a length over its nearest competitor, crew B, stroked by J. W. Fox, Crew C followed crew B across the line at a disadvantage of half a length, with crews F and E only a few feel behind. There was a little open water between the stern of crew E and the how of crew E and the bow of crew D, the last of the six shells to cross the finish line...
Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover, his blocky face no longer furrowed with anxiety, returned again last week to Washington from the Mississippi Basin. Presenting himself to President Coolidge, he reported the extent to which 614,000 people in 120 counties had been helped to pull themselves out of the mud of the worst flood in U. S. history...
Last week just such a happening took place in the Sequatchie Valley, Tenn. Pickett's Lake, near Whitwell, famed for its trout, was emptied overnight. Natives found scores of trout, from a pound to five pounds, skittering, burrowing, gasping in shallow puddles in the mud basin. Smaller fish seemed to have escaped by routes which, when geologists found them, showed that the sudden drainage was no miracle. Two crevices in the lake bottom had. opened, presumably by earth contraction during a local drought, emptying Pickett's Lake into the Sequatchie River, a mile away...