Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep Roots. Right or wrong, Harry Truman had answers for everybody all week long. He flew out to Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, to lecture seven flood-weary Midwestern governors (six of them Republicans) on the need for flood control (see below). "I want to get this job done," he snapped. "There isn't any sense in our fooling around any longer." For the Daughters of the American Revolution, gathered in annual convention in Washington, he had a polite welcoming note and a couple of not-so-polite digs. During a White House ceremony for Polish Refugee Josef Zylka...
...would stand by for developments. Professional Jack Arvey, Illinois' Democratic National Committeeman, said he is still for Stevenson, thinks his man "should & would accept" a draft. Even Harry Truman, who had displayed his own brand of purebred no only last month, seemed far from convinced. At his flood conference in Omaha, the President shook Stevenson's hand, gave him a big grin and said: "Adlai, I don't believe...
From Sioux City downstream 100 miles to Omaha, men fought a desperate battle against the mighty, muddy Missouri River. Like a huge inland tidal wave, 20 miles long and moving at a speed of nine miles an hour, the flood crest smashed at banks and levees, swallowed up great stretches of fertile farmland and laid siege to half-empty towns and cities, holding out behind their sandbag barricades (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The critical point last week came at the narrow channel between Omaha and Council Bluffs, where a levee and flood wall system was designed to keep the river...
...under U.S. Army Engineers, swarmed to the levees to buttress their ramparts against "C-Hour" ("C" for crest). Flashboards (double wooden fences with earthen fill between) were thrown up to give the dikes more height. Trucks and bulldozers worked around the clock, pushing up secondary levees wherever the battering flood water weakened the primary wall...
...Hour. The river rose, a brown, swirling fury in a straitjacket, pushing with enormous force at the restraining walls, threatening to saturate the levees to the point where they would disintegrate. Along the levees guarding Omaha's airfield, the flood pressed by, 15 feet higher than the runways. Some 30,000 people were evacuated from the low-lying residential districts of Council Bluffs. By car and truck the evacuees hauled off what they could, trying to decide between the television set and the washing machine. Householders filled their basements with water to equalize the river pressure and save...