Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Millions and millions of loudspeakers flood the U. S. with a mighty, surging bath of warm, sweet music. At the pump is Radio; the wellspring is Tin Pan Alley. Without the well, the pump is not much good. Both realize it but they do not love each other. Last week pump and well- the National Association of Broadcasters and the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers-came to grips...
Last week the Central and the Pennsylvania dropped their competition long enough to publish a curious joint advertisement about the coolness of their trains. Dining cars on the best trains will be air-conditioned. Into other cars, before leaving on hot days, will be pumped "a flood of fresh, precooled air" which will be "forced through all the aisles, around the seats, below the berths, into the compartments-penetrating to every nook and cranny of the car . . . affording full ventilation en route...
...Committee, Chairman Jones of the House Agriculture Committee declared: "Secretary Hyde understands more about politics than he does about agriculture. . . . 'Farmer' Hyde has an apparent idea that reforestation consists of going to a nursery, buying a seedling and planting it. He overlooks entirely the great problems of flood control . . . soil erosion . . . preparation of the soil . . . drainage." The American Forestry Association rebuked Secretary Hyde for viewing reforestation "in the narrow sense of merely planting trees...
...roads. 120: rivers tures, improving rivers harbors, 30; govern-& harbors, constructing ment buildings, 100: Federal roads, and to floodized. Major items (in 3.000 postoffices and millions of dollars): other government struc roads. 120: rivers tures, improving rivers harbors, 30; govern-& harbors, constructing ment buildings, 100: Federal roads, and to flood control. 15; Army be otherwise invested in & Navy housing, 25. a national public works The President was given program returning no $168,000,000 to spend revenue. A gasoline tax on public projects as he of Y^ per gal. is pro saw fit. None of this vided to amortize...
...Harry Flood Byrd's candidacy was pressed as "The American" followed by: "Liberty and Order, Economy and Efficiency, Courage and Honesty, Equality and Progress...