Word: controls
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Reforestation. A frequently brought forward measure of flood-control has been reforestation. One objection to this scheme is that the Mississippi went on one of the greatest floods of its history in 1844 when the valley was thickly forested...
Spillways. The most promising and most seriously considered flood-control method is the spillway. The Atchafalaya River is a good example of a natural spillway. It flows, roughly speaking, parallel to the Mississippi through Louisiana. By building strong levees all along its length to the Gulf it could be turned into a kind of trough which would draw off water from the Mississippi itself. In the present flood the Atchafalaya did, in a way, perform exactly this function; unfortunately, however, it received altogether too much water so that the later stages of the flood were along the Atchafalaya, not along...
...Without risking or spending one cent, without making an investment of any kind, the New York bankers have taken absolute control of Nicaragua. Its transport system, its currency and credit and, by those means, the government of Nicaragua itself, is in the hands of J. & W. Seligman & Co. and of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New York...
...contests and the most spectacular matches are played where the best crowds can be drawn. Rugby football, moreover, as the most popular sport, has frequently accumulated surplus funds which have been distributed, as with football in America, to nourish less fortunate games. In each college, there is a central control for athletics, and attempts have been made in the universities as a whole to combine all athletic activities in one organization...
...when the price slump had dragged Montgomery Ward & Co. (everything by mail, from engagement rings to fox-traps) into a nine million dollar deficit, he was called in as its president. The 1922 balance sheet showed profits of $4,562,607. He revolutionized the buying and inventory control, tripled gross sales in five years (to some 200 millions in 1926), and made record profits of $11,358,498. When he resigned as president last week Mr. Merseles agreed to stay with Montgomery Ward as executive committee chairman. Montgomery Ward officers denied they planned to merge with their big competitor, Sears...