Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Then, of course we received a flood of letters. The friendliest was from the person most injured-Miss Gale herself, who even offered to help the misguided Mr. Bloser to straighten things out! She sent us a copy of the following note...
...night club, Manhattan. He is out on bail pending Federal trial for a narcotic law violation. Since his last arrest he has dwelt secluded in a mountain retreat at Acra, N. Y., where his ten-room house was guarded (until police raids) by machine-guns, is still guarded by flood lights which sweep every approach...
...fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...
...flew off on an important mission. On one of the longest river junkets ever undertaken by a Secretary of War, he was going to inspect the Mississippi from (navigable) source to delta, from Minneapolis to the Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could be done to speed up the work as an aid to unemployment. To date 20,000 men have put 70 million cubic yards of dirt into new levees at a cost...
This year, because there has been so little rain, the work was begun a month earlier than usual. Last year flood conditions continued throughout the summer and only five million fish needed saving. This year's total is expected to exceed 150 million...