Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...governors seldom find time to visit at the White House, but one of them was among the first Coolidge callers last week -Governor John T. Martineau of Arkansas. He came as a chair-man with his six Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi colleagues on the tri-state executive board of flood control. After the call, Governor Martineau said: "We found President Coolidge sympathetic. . . ." He estimated that the permanent anti-flood program would cost close to a half billion.* The governor and colleagues later conferred with Secretary of War Davis and chief of engineers General Hadwin. ¶Four days after Governor Martineau...
...Secretary of Commerce Hoover, after warning that all flood control estimates were guesswork so far, last week guessed that the program would be managed for 20 or 30 millions per annum for 10 years. These costs, he thought, should not deter tax reduction. š Arbitration commissions established by treaties with Britain and France...
...from these more or less accurate pieces of theatrical realism, which picture the scenes beyond the wings in more truth than has hitherto been their portraiture, to the flood of circus movies which burst upon the movie-going public of two or three years ago. Almost impossible it is to believe that the cinema would ever see its ideas adopted by the stage, but that is precisely what has happened...
Saxophones Flood Colleges...
Houses collapsed and the litter they made was hurled over the land for miles. Heavy rains beat down. Rivers and streams rose seething, overflowing their banks and rushing through the already flattened rice fields. Whipped into angry eddies by the driving storm, the flood carried whole houses with...