Word: flooded
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Josephy spoke with officials in six federal agencies involved in flood control, land reclamation, conservation and power production in the valley, discovered that few of them had the complete picture of what the others were doing. Also involved were the governments of the ten states and various industrial, agricultural and private development agencies. Says Josephy: "When I asked, 'How many dams are being built in the valley?' nobody could tell...
...Shao apparently forgot about the Babylonians who were appeasing their gods with a genial mild-and-bitter (brewed from wheat and honey) almost 40 centuries earlier, circa 6,000 B.C. Genesis 9:21 notes that after the Flood Noah "drank of the wine, and was drunken." The ancient Egyptians, too, were prodigious tipplers: according to his temple inscriptions, Pharaoh Ramses III (c. 1198-1167 B.C.) personally stood the gods 466,303 jugs of beer...
...longer do rancher and farmer struggle alone against flood and drought in, one of the most formidable regions of a formidable continent. For seven years, the Missouri Valley has been the scene of one of the greatest land and water control and development projects ever attempted, a spectacular 35-year, $15 billion state & federal public works program designed to tame the huge watershed, stretching from the Mississippi River to the Great Divide. Since August 1945, when the ten valley states and six federal agencies joined in an informal, voluntary federation (the Interagency Committee) to put the Missouri Valley development program...
...miles above St. Louis. Besides other names, many unprintable, the Missouri has been called "the most useless river there is." Government engineers, pointing up their hopes of a harnessed watershed, call it the River of Gold. Farmers who live by its banks and have fought its silt-laden flood tide year after year call it the Big Muddy...
...Army Engineers insist that lower basin levee systems must be reinforced by big river flood-control dams, like the $87 million Tuttle Creek project on the Big Blue River north of Manhattan, Kans. Authorized in 1938 as the key unit in the control of the Kansas (Kaw) River Basin, it was blocked for 14 years by angry farmers whose land would be flooded, and who argued instead for a federally financed program of soil conservation (contouring, terracing) and small detention dams on the land to hold the water where it fell. Each year the late Senator Clyde Reed of Kansas...