Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hundred years after the flood of British sea power drowned Holland as a first-class nation, hardworking, stubborn Dutchmen have at least succeeded in reclaiming a well-diked reputation as leading producers of tulips and cheese: But Dutch literature, which even at its high point, in the time of Erasmus and Spinoza, was always Holland's lowest point below sea level, remains almost wholly unreclaimed. Last week two Dutch novels stood out as new patches of dry land...
...McCloud, the Sacramento-to unite under the latter's name in a deep valley just above Redding, Calif. Since 1866 engineers have dreamed of throwing up a dam below the rivers' confluence, to stabilize the water supply of the whole fertile Sacramento Valley. Besides irrigation and flood control, hydroelectric power would be a byproduct, perhaps making profitable the mining of iron ores now locked in the wild Siskiyou Mountains north of Shasta...
...Texas the same day, President John W. Carpenter of Texas Power & Light, an affiliate of huge Electric Bond & Share Co., penned a similar letter to the Lower Colorado River Authority, TVA of the Southwest. Allegedly sponsoring flood control, LCRA has urged a number of municipalities along the Colorado River to build their own power plants with PWA aid. Texas Power & Light has 1,277 miles of power line serving 13,200 customers in this Texas area, which is as big as Massachusetts and Connecticut combined. Last week, President Carpenter offered to sell this chunk of his system to LCRA, saying...
...until his death in 1936 its president, the relay spree celebrated the inauguration of service over the league's new head quarters station. At Brainard Field, Hartford's municipal airport, A.R.R.L. had had its station WIMK to cover the world until the 1936 Connecticut River Valley flood covered the station deep in mud and oil, wrecked it. Founder Maxim had died a month before the flood, was succeeded in the league's presidency by Dr. Eugene C. Woodruff, head of Pennsylvania State College's departments of Electrical and Radio Engineering. Under President Woodruff's leadership...
...bellhops, coal miners, women, small girls, professional men. Their stations are worth anywhere from $25 to $35,000. They are called in by the army, navy and the Red Cross to assist in times of disaster, set up emergency communication systems for relaying messages from isolated communities in storm, flood and earthquake...