Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hall to make merry with expansive Mayor Arthur J. O'Keefe. The school children of New Orleans were instructed to contribute a penny each to buy a silver scroll of thanks for President Coolidge. Mayor O'Keefe called for thanksgiving services in all the churches. The Flood Control bill was law at last...
...Louisiana legislature, rejoicing was not so wholehearted. Members from districts where Federal spillways and floodways will force dwellers to move out, defeated a resolution of thanks to the U. S. Congress. .. After the excitement had passed, citizens considered what actual Flood Control work would go ahead forthwith, and what the U. S. had done already...
...first instalment of $25,000,000 on the $325,000,000 authorized for the whole program. The $15,000,000 will doubtless be inserted in the Second Deficiency Bill when that measure reaches the Senate this week or next. 2) The new three-man U. S. Flood Control Commission (see below) must study conflicting plans for the work and report to the President, who will pass on the final plan. The conflicts centre chiefly on the size and cost of floodways on the Boeuf River in Arkansas and Louisiana and the Atchafalaya River in Louisiana; and on raising present levees...
...conflicting plans of Flood Control, were drawn by the Mississippi River Commission (an interstate body) and the U. S. Army engineers, respectively. The chiefs of these two bodies were put on the new U. S. Flood Control Commission. For the third member, President Coolidge sought a civilian of unquestioned neutrality. He found and named him in Carleton W. Sturtevant, aged 64, a native of Ohio, trained in Missouri, now living in the Bronx, N. Y. A lifelong dredger of rivers, Engineer Sturtevant has worked on the Mississippi, St. Lawrence, Hudson...
Muckrakers? have made much of the way Mr. Rockefeller bought out competitors. According to Miss Tarbell, he would go to a refiner and say: "You see, this scheme is bound to work. It means an absolute control by us of the oil business. There is no chance for anyone outside. But we are going to give everybody a chance to come in. You are to turn over your refinery to my appraisers, and I will give you Standard Oil Co. stock or cash, as you prefer, for the value we put upon it. I advise you to take the stock...