Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...development of the natural resources of the Tennessee River drainage basin." Declared he in his special message: "The Muscle Shoals development is but a small part of the potential public usefulness of the entire Tennessee River. Such use transcends mere power development; it enters the wide fields of flood control, soil erosion, reforestation, elimination from agricultural use of marginal lands and distribution and diversification of industry...
...served the banking situation with dispatch, concerns himself in the current Tennessee Valley project with matters quite as vast, but far less debatable. That the national investment in Muscle Shoals has remained too long in an inchoative stage is a criticism which few would care to dispute. And that flood control is not a quixotic dream the most superficial reveiw of British engineering on the Nile makes very clear. In detail, the Presidential message is sound and desirable enough; but in the abstract, a few uncomfortable difficulties arise...
...Cincinnati Post appeared this flood-time advertisement: "Lost. 3-ROOM COTTAGE-Painted white, green trimming: from Terrace Park, Sunday morning. Reward. AVon...
...plan after plan for bank-opening was proposed, dissected, discarded. But when the final decision was reached early last week, Detroit was in an uproar. Police Commissioner James K. Watkins led the opposition, crying: "Your city is being sold out from under your feet!" At his broadcast appeal, a flood of protest telegrams hit Washington, just as they had at almost every other proposal (TIME, March 27). Secretary of the Treasury Woodin asked Detroit's spellbinding radio priest, Father Charles Coughlin, to defend the plan.* More telegrams hit Washington, bringing the total to some 10,000, divided about equally...
...with a dose of patent cough medicine. Another time, looking closely into a new orchid, he met the stare of a deadly little red coral snake. Once he camped on a little island in the great Orinoco River, his orchids all boxed on their rafts for the trip home. Flood, freshets boomed down the river, lifted Lager, rafts and orchids and set them on land 400 mi. downstream. Since the U. S. embargo he has stopped hunting except occasionally in Florida...