Word: dams
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beckett, Mass., William Ballon, owner of the reservoir above the town, sat waiting in his automobile until the dam began to crumble. Then he sped, honking, to warn his towns-fellows. All escaped but Mrs. Justine Carroll, aged 60, who hesitated fatally as mills, stores, houses, barns swept down upon...
Overnight Lake Constance in Switzerland rose 15 feet as the upper reaches of the Rhine poured in its roaring torrent of muddy water. Higher and higher rose the Rhine, greater and greater became the pressure of the angry, swollen current and, finally, the huge 5,000-foot dam between Switzerland and the tiny principality of Liechtenstein burst and the water shot down the mountain side like 10,000 enraged tigers pouncing on their prey...
...camps in China. This time we had none. Why should we not stick our chests out at times and be proud to wear the bronze button, which, by the way, is made from metal taken from the Old U. S. S. Maine. which started the whole dam thing. AUSTIN C. ROWELL...
...such pressing matters as farm relief, the Boulder Dam project, the naval building program and Muscle Shoals, views are so divergent that action can hardly be taken until later in the session, whenever Congress meets...
There will remain the vexed questions of power rights and the site of a dam to be settled after the division of the water...