Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Property damage was beyond, estimate. Millions of acres of cotton land were under water, with the flood moving on the "sugar bowl" section of Louisiana from which comes much of the nation's sugar...
Relief. The Red Cross, on a $10,000,000 flood fund "drive," had by last week raised $8,500,000. More than 100,000 refugees had been vaccinated; disease outbreaks were confined to some 25 cases of typhoid and a few of dysentery. Countless boats and 48 Army and Navy planes have been employed in rescue work...
Personalities. Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover headed a flood commission appointed by the President. Henry M. Baker, Red Cross Director of Relief, supervised Red Cross work. One-time Governor John M. Parker of Louisiana was appointed by Mr. Hoover as flood relief director in his state, was aided by present Governor Oramel Hinkley Simpson...
President Coolidge appointed a special flood commission; as nominal head of the Red Cross, issued calls for relief funds; steadfastly refused to summon special flood session of Congress; argued that the emergency would be over before Congress could...
Millions of words have been written about the flood; most of them endlessly reiterating news of thousands homeless, of counties and parishes inundated, left readers with a deep but vague impression of the great disaster. Had a reporter explored the flood area with an eye to specific highlights, notes for his story might have read somewhat as follows...