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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some $325,000,000 since the great flood of 1927, to make the valley flood-safe. Already last week criticisms of the Army's work were being heard. Some said that reforestation was more needed than the Army's levees, that 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...
...Army's flood control plan (General Jadwin's plan modified) was to provide protection from the maximum possible flood. Army Engineers and the Weather Bureau calculated this "superflood" by taking the maximum known flood of each of the Mississippi's great tributaries and assuming that they all hit the main river at once-which they have never done...
...superflood planned for. Most of the big tributaries, such as the White, Arkansas and Ouachita Rivers, were below record heights. But the Ohio was far above its highest record made in 1913, and since the Ohio enters the Mississippi higher than all the others, the Army's flood control works from Cairo to the White River were receiving a much more severe test than the Army's superflood contemplated...
...this takes place under confinement, the vapor is formed at high pressure.* Everts and two associates designed a power unit consisting of two small tanks containing 25 Ib. each of dry ice. Sublimed, this delivers a pressure of 1,000 Ib. per sq. in., which is stepped down by control valves to 250 Ib. before being applied to the water hose. Last week
...Paris last week, against a backdrop of grenadine velvet, the Bank of France staged its first meeting since Premier Blum enfranchised the Bank's 40,000 hitherto voteless stockholders. Sole control previously rested in the potent hands of the 200 largest shareholders-"the 200 Families of France" (TIME, May 18, et seq.). With a turn-out of no less than 1,300 excited Parisian and provincial shareholders, the meeting was as raucous as a stormy session of the Chamber of Deputies. It took Governor Emile Labeyrie three hours to get through his scholarly 90-minute report, so often...