Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Senators Charles Curtis and his lively colleague, Senator Arthur Cap- per, to introduce a band of Kansas flood-controllers headed by Governor Ben Sandford Paulen...
Following the suggestion of Secretary of Commerce Hoover that the best " sequel to a destructive flood is a flow of credit (TIME, Nov. 28), a committee of New England bankers chosen by the New England Council announced the formation of two corporations : 1) The New England Flood Credit Corporation, chartered in Delaware;! a holding company to find the market and sell $1,000,000 worth of guaranty stock in- 2) The Vermont Flood Credit Corporation, chartered in Vermont. Vermonters will be asked to take up $250,000 of the stock; outsiders $750,000. Vermont bankers will make relief loans...
...Hampshire. With only $3,000,000 flood damage (compared to Vermont's $30,000,000), New Hampshire believed itself able to rehabilitate itself by taxation alone. In a special session last week, the New Hampshire House voted a special issue of 4% bonds to be issued up to $3,000,000, as needed; voted also to increase the state gasoline tax from 3c per gallon...
...Flood relief...
...heavier weapons to batter in the cellhouse doors, police and militia withdrew to await the arrival of tanks, airplanes, one-pounders. Snipers watched the cellhouse windows the rest of the afternoon. Warden Smith, who safely left and returned to his office after dark, warned the prisoners that he could flood the cellhouse and drown them all. He offered to let them march out in peaceable surrender. They refused...