Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...means of a protective tariff we have saved American agriculture, labor and industry from the menace of having their great home market destroyed through the dumping upon it of a flood of foreign products. . . . As a source of revenue the tariff surpassed all expectations in producing an annual return of the unprecedented sum of about $500,000,000. . . . "The people have never come to a full realization of the importance of the Washington Conference. It produced the one effective agreement among the great Powers in all the history of civilization for relieving the people of the earth from the enormous...
Waters. Deep waterways to Gulf and Atlantic Ocean from the Great Lakes; Inland waterways, flood control, especially on Mississippi and Colorado Rivers; survey for these purposes; examination of licenses to be granted by the Federal Water Power Commission by Congress...
...Great Lakes-Atlantic and Great Lakes-Gulf waterways; surveys for flood control on the Colorado; continuation of Federal Water Power...
Indeed it was not unlike the episode of the Ark, when the delegates came to Cleveland. They came to escape from the flood of ballots that is sure to drown somebody in November. They came to board the craft which they hoped would carry them safely upon the surface of the flood. They were a motley crew? a princess from Oceania, a learned historian-statesman from Massachusetts, a much investigated ex-Cabinet officer from Ohio and many less marked personages. They trooped into Public Hall, which may be called the Ark, to place themselves in the care of the astute...
Waters. Great Lakes-Atlantic and Great Lakes-Gulf waterways. Surveys for flood control and irrigation on the Colorado River. Continuation of the Federal Water Power...