Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next item on the administration's program was unemployment relief. To Congress, the President sent another terse message. He proposed three types of legislation: 1) immediate enrollment of workers by the Federal Government in a "civilian conservation corps to be used in . . . forestry, prevention of soil erosion, flood control and similar projects;" 2) grants to states for relief work; 3) a broad public works labor-creating program. The President estimated that given power to proceed with his first recommendation, 250,000 men would be put to work by early summer...
...Another disaster threatened last week when the Ohio river rose to the highest flood stage since 1913, burst its hanks, drove thousands from their homes, killed eight...
When we catch our first glimpse of Kate, she is carrying on the battle of save her farm from a power company that is planning to dam a nearby river and flood her property. To earn money to fight them in court, she takes to radio and night-club singing, but never forgets her knitting and the folks back home. Faculty she arrives in time to pay the $50,000, and save the old homestead, and, in fact, the whole valley. Farmyard scenes, in which Kate Smith seems as much at home as any other side-show freak would...
...best shots of this quite admirable program is in the news-reel of the recent English flood, showing two small puppies adrift in a wash tub. Even if both shows were terrible (and they certainly are quite the opposite) this shot is well worth the price of admission...
Today most Germans are agreed that Hitlerism, with its bombastic counsels of violence, treaty-breaking and Jew-baiting, would have swept their country years ago had not Germans been lulled by a false, post-War prosperity induced in the Fatherland by a flood of U. S. loans. These loans enabled Germany to pay Reparations with borrowed money, turned the shackles riveted on her by the Treaty of Versailles almost into golden bracelets. When Depression showed the bracelets to be iron, Germany-in-chains was ready to break them by turning to the doctrines of Messiah Hitler who had been preaching...