Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Flood control. As for flood control, everyone agreed that the Federal Government should bear the expense of future flood-prevention measures...
...convention discussed three main topics: farm relief, election expenses, flood control. Farm relief brought out the most lively expressions of opinion. Governor John Hammill of Iowa and Governor Adam McMullen of Nebraska, indeed, distinctly rippled the placid surface of conference debate. Said Governor Hammill: "The era in which we are living presents a challenge to the men whom the people of this nation have placed in positions of high responsibility. Either they must do what needs to be done'... or they must make way for others who will." (Governor Hammill is a pronounced Lowden man.) Then Governor McMullen said...
...farmer," he said, "wants no governmental price-fixing on his products and he courts the minimum of state control of his affairs. (Government control of crop surplus and government price-fixing for its disposition were outstanding features of the McNary-Haugen bill.) "I can see," added Mr. McKelvie, "the possibility, aye, the probability, of a system of cooperative marketing fostered by the government under which the farmer may retain his independence and initiative while working out his problems." The Lowden program, Mr. McKelvie observed, "shows how far afield politically minded men will go" when discussing the topic of farm relief...
...President at Ouster Park last week came Herbert C. Hoover, reported on conditions in the flood area. His report centred upon the following points: The Federal Government normally appropriates some $16,000,000 yearly for control and navigation of the Mississippi River. This sum should be increased by from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 annually, and the increase should tinue for ten years, making a total extra expenditure of from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. Flood prevention plans should include the building of higher, wider levees; the construction of a spillway* in Louisiana (probably using...
...NEXT AGE OF MAN?Albert Edward Wiggam ? Bobbs-Merrill ($3). "Plainly, it is a crisis in the affairs of human beings." It is a time not far distant, according to Author Wiggam, when the two hormones which control female reproductive organs will be harnessed, put into pills, sold at corner drug stores. Thus will parents be able to determine the nature and the number of their offspring. A finer race will be bred. Evolution will become "peaceful, happy, benign...