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Word: controls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...paid for by Federal hunting licenses at $1 each. So long, so earnestly did Senator Elaine and one or two others talk, that it became apparent that migratory birds were being filibustered out of sanctuary. So the bird bill was deposed in the order of business and the Flood Control bill was called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 70 to 0 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Authority for the Secretary of War to survey the Mississippi's tributaries and report what flood-control works they need...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 70 to 0 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...emergency fund of $5,000,000 for immediate control or rescue work on Mississippi tributaries between Cairo and the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 70 to 0 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...House, where flood control hearings began last November with no result as yet, the Senate was congratulated and its work received with interest. The House Flood Control Committee approved the bill and prepared to report it without major amendments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 70 to 0 | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

...Oklahoma oil pool and came out with $100,000. Soon he was a millionaire producer with properties dotted all through the midwest, from southern Kansas to northern Texas. He would spot a place, buy or lease it, develop it, sell out and look for another place. He kept control of richest wells...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Long, Long Trial | 4/9/1928 | See Source »

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