Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...effort] made to amuse readers of TIME'S issue of May 16, by publishing the misspelt letter of Mr. C. R. Crane of Wagoner, Okla., a farmer and flood victim, same being a cancellation of his subscription to TIME and so irrelevant to readers...
...Melville. One evening last week some 1,000 residents of Melville, La., went serenely to their beds. Doubtless most of them gave their last waking thoughts to the flood waters bearing down from the north. Yet they were hardly excited, much less panic-stricken...
True, "M'sieu Jean" (their name for onetime Louisiana Governor John M. Parker, now directing flood relief) had given danger warnings, had urged them to leave their homes and to gather in refugee camps. "M'sieu Jean" was a good man, a fine man?but perhaps a little inclined toward alarms. When one's fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have lived in the same village and furrowed the same earth, one does not take oneself away without good reason. Floods ? There had always been floods, there would always be floods. Every spring the rivers rose and frightened strangers. True...
Acadians. The story of Melville illustrates the tenacity with which the people in the area now being flooded cling to their homes. Most of them are Acadians?of old French and Spanish stock, few speaking English. They are (in the words of Herbert C. Hoover) "as much like French peasants as one dot is like another." Many of them wear French peasant costumes; have their shoes peg-nailed by a community shoemaker, his last held between his knees; eat hoe-cakes of home-ground corn meal, baked over live coals on three-legged iron spiders. Unable to realize that...
...railroads load more than 1,000,000 cars of freight in one week, as the American Railway Association reported last week for the fourth time this year, that means that commodities are moving, that business is good. The continuing bituminous (soft) coal strike and the Mississippi river basin flood have prevented more than four 1,000,000-car weeks this year...