Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This year the club has branched out. A new plane was purchased in the West and flown to Cambridge from Milwankee. Two air meets have been entered with considerable success, and the Crimson flyers have also had a hand in the New England Flood emergency work...
...power that Mayor Thompson now holds over Mr. Lowden is proportionate to the power of the Mississippi Flood over the farmlands of its basin, plus the power of many a steamboat. Mayor Thompson literally took the Mississippi Flood at its crest. He was cruising downstream with brass bands to popularize the Lakes-to-Gulf waterway when the rains descended. He changed his commercial cruise into an "errand of mercy," swung Chicago and himself into leadership of the flood-control movement, by no means neglecting to keep the Lakes-to-Gulf project stoked up and steaming along behind...
...patient by showing professional enthusiasm over unique features of the case, Secretary of Commerce Hoover, national disaster-doctor, last week told Governor John E. Weeks of Vermont that he "would be delighted to be associated with the people of Vermont" in rehabilitating the state;* that the New England flood was unparalleled because of the rapidity with which so much damage had been done...
...Hampshire, with $2,590,000 flood damage, asked no outside aid. Last week Governor Huntley M. Spaulding called a special session of the New Hampshire Legislature...
Died. Reuben S. Sleight, assistant to Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover; when the airplane in which he, enroute to a conference on New England flood relief, was flying from Mitchell Field, N. Y., to Montpelier, Vt., overturned in attempting a landing at Montpelier...