Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heaviest floods in over 100 years burst over Missouri River banks last June, destroying lives, crops, property, and running up a tremendous bill of more than a quarter of a billion dollars. The floods also brought swift and angry demands from Missouri Valley citizens for relief action by the penny-wise U. S. Congress which had cut river control funds early in 1947. So once again, Congress found itself faced with the perplexing problem of what to do with the Missouri River. The piecemeal sandbag method evidently wasn't working. But although President Truman called for an ambitious program...
There were two plans for not only Missouri River flood control, but for navigation, irrigation, and electric power as well. One, the Pick-Sloan plan of the Army engineers and the U. S. Reclamation Bureau, was already in the blueprint stage, with some construction under way. The other, a Missouri Valley Authority following the general pattern of the TVA, was only on paper. The difference between them was that the Pick-Sloan plan was an amalgam of Federal and State agencies, and of compromises between proponents of irrigation and navigation, while the MVA would be an independent regional agency treating...
...Army-Reclamation Bureau project and the MVA have been fighting it out ever since 1944. In August of that year, when Senator James Murray of Montana introduced a bill to set up an MVA, governors in eight of the nine Missouri Basin states came out cautiously for Army flood control proposals and the Reclamation Bureau's plans for irrigation development. In November, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau (headed by Major General Lewis Pick and W. G. Sloan) joined forces in a compromise; Senator Murray promptly accused them of hastening their agreement just to thwart...
...Flood Control...
...reform. Says Roberts: "Pendergast had civic leadership constricted. He even controlled the Chamber of Commerce. Good and able citizens took no part in the city's affairs. If they bucked the machine, they were liable to personal harm. When the machine broke down, we had a flood of new blood. Where there were a few civic leaders a few years ago, there are now scores...