Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out that the issue is actually not recognition but credits. Only in case the R. F. C. or some other great font of U. S. credit is opened to the Soviet Union would U. S. producers, still profoundly suspicious of Josef Stalin & Co., feel safe in accepting the flood of orders which Russia has stood ready for years to give on credit...
...House he gave ground on his pension cuts (see p. 13). To avoid a long Senate wrangle, he dropped his plan to ask Congress for authority to make special tariff treaties at the London Conference. To put down resentful little rebellions in his own party, he released a flood of Grade B patronage. At his command the Senate sat for twelve-hour stretches. Oldsters could recall nothing to match the Roosevelt drive for adjournment. But at the last moment the President made a tactical error which cost him his whole week's work. Submitted to Congress...
When President Roosevelt took office, some $1,500,000,000 in gold money was in private hiding. His April 5 executive order calling for its return to the Federal Reserve by May 1 under pain of ten years imprisonment and $10,000 fine started a golden flood back to the Government which up to last week exceeded $800,000,000. But because thousands and thousands of citizens had never heard of the President's order or thought he was bluffing on his power to compel an exchange of metal for paper, $604,408,985 in gold and gold certificates...
Chairman Morgan's assigned objectives are as follows: 1) flood control works along the Tennessee River to even up its flow between a March torrent and an October trickle; 2) a 9-ft. channel for navigation from Knoxville to Paducah (650 mi.); 3) reforestation of marginal lands to prevent soil erosion and to supply the next generation with a timber crop; 4) decentralization of industry so that Tennessee Valley residents may live on farms while working in factories; 5) manufacture of fertilizer; 6) production and distribution of cheap hydroelectric power. For these purposes the Tennessee Valley Authority is permitted...
...back in 1913 he, as president pro tem of the State Senate, was acting Governor of Arkansas for a few months and during that time made a record for himself: inaugurated the first State system of roads, pardoned a minimum number of jailbirds, helped out sufferers from the big flood that year. Since then he has been a judge, a member of the Legislature. Once he owned stock in a bank but it failed and he was assessed; since then he has owned no stock. When he was elected Governor last fall he still had no electric lights...