Word: flood-control
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...good deal of aid from Washington, where pond-raised catfish are regarded as one answer to a rising U.S. demand for all types of fish products. The Agriculture Department's Soil Conservation Service, for example, offers free technical advice on the construction of ponds for catfish farming or flood-control purposes...
...increase until the Administration has slashed nonmilitary spending, President Johnson two weeks ago agreed to a reduction of as much as $9 billion in his budget. Such a cut would affect foreign aid, the space program, the supersonic jet, and some or all of $1.5 billion in the highway, flood-control, and federal building programs...
...Texas created Dallas County in 1846 with Dallas as the 'Seat of Justice.' In 1855 a toll bridge crossed the channel of the Trinity River at the west end of this plaza. Years later the river channel was moved one-half mile westward and confined between flood-control levees. Dallas was incorporated as a town...
...Approved, in the Senate Public Works Committee, a modified version of the Administration's highway beautification program (see MODERN LIVING). > Approved, in the House Public Works Committee, an omnibus rivers and harbors bill authorizing $1.9 billion for 144 projects, ranging from a $15 million flood-control system in Iowa Republican Representative H. R. Gross's home town of Waterloo to an $83 million initial grant for dredging Texas' Trinity River so that Dallas and Fort Worth might become seaports...
...million for irrigation and flood-control development to bring 3,000,000 more acres of cropland into production by 1980, making the country self-sufficicnt in farm production. Last year Venezuela spent almost $60 million on food imports...