Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon Bart McDonough, Bill Morton and Bill McCall took turns at directing the Green team, running through plays which the coaches considered rough in spots and needing some improvement. The practice would have continued until after dark had the team managers been able to turn on the flood lights which surround the football field...
...Congress: He is about as regular in his votes as a Democrat can be. He voted for tax reduction and flood control in 1928, for the Jones law and the 15 cruiser bill in 1929. He voted in series for the three farm relief bills in recent sessions, for radio control, for the Boulder Dam, against reapportionment. He is now fighting the tariff bill...
...suspend judgment (and work) on part of the project (TIME, Sept. 23). The trouble brewing is the objections of landowners along the Boeuf and Atchafalaya Rivers. These are two subtributaries of the Mississippi which run practically parallel to the course of the great river in Louisiana and Arkansas. The flood relief plan devised under General Jadwin and adopted by Congress proposed that these valleys shall be used to draw off excess waters in times of great floods...
...compensation for landowners there was provided by the plan because its supporters declared: 1) that those valleys had always been inundated in great floods; 2) that they would be deprived of no flood protection that they had previously had; 3) that they would be inundated only once in ten or 15 years; 4) that the land there was about 80% swamp and forest...
...Scenario Writer Gene Markey. She had known Gilbert for only a fortnight. They were married in Las Vegas, Nev., before a little group of cowboys, storekeepers and cinema friends. Those members of the cinema public not familiar with Miss Claire's stage reputation were informed in a flood of publicity material what sort of a Thisbe this was who had charmed their Pyramis. The secret of her success seemed compressed into the following grave statement by Miss Claire (in an "interview" where she was discussing Mistresses Nell Gwyn, Cleopatra, Lady Hamilton...