Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most beautiful flowers of the American spirit. . . . Like so many benign social agencies, it sprang from the mind and the heart of a woman. Clara Barton was in her own person and her own life all that the Red Cross has since become. . . . The Johnstown flood found her ready and within an hour after it was reported she was on her way to the stricken city. . . . Clara Barton did not look to government for support of her work. Governments are always too slow, frequently too shortsighted, to meet the sudden sharp demands of critical emergencies. She depended upon the instant...
...economize for deficit reasons, President Hoover had picked the Army as his first big target (TIME, May 18). He knew he could not reduce the fighting force below its 118,000 men without encountering violent public objections. He did not want to retrench on river & harbor improvements and flood control because they were essentials of his Unemployment relief program. Therefore he selected as the most likely bull's-eye for economy some of the Army's 340 forts, garrisons, depots, camps, hospitals, flying fields and arsenals. To the country he issued a statement: "The [General] Staff has insisted...
...Morgan went to Antioch first as a member of its Board of Trustees. He soon (in 1922) became president of the obscure, dying college, reorganized it completely. An engineer, he was mostly self educated. His only degree is an honorary D. Sc. from the University of Colorado. Experienced in flood control, he helped harness the Miami River after the disastrous Dayton flood of 1913. Then he turned to education, established schools for the children of his many subordinates, helped found Moraine Park School in Dayton. He looked to Antioch as a place to carry out his ideas, for its president...
...will and left no heirs. The public administrator had to do his duty and order a public auction, the proceeds going to the State treasury after deducting official fees. Mother Rita declared that if the building were sold, the entire city of New Orleans would be destroyed by flood "so quickly that no one would have time to speak...
Against fire, flood and floating ice; against rain, wind, tidal waves and meteorites; against explosions, collisions, sabotage, strikes, war, anarchy, Acts of God and complete collapse, the Port of New York Authority last week insured its vehicular tunnel under the Hudson River and its nearly completed bridge over the same stream. The $55,000,000 policy, the largest of its kind ever taken out in New York State, was split among 30 companies. As unusual as the size was the rate: 16? per $100. On most transportational structures, premiums range between...