Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allocation of costs on TVA dams and reservoirs-between navigation, flood control, national defense, agriculture and power-Director Lilienthal tried to make TVA adopt the "byproduct" theory of power development, which would make the power look extremely cheap. "But for the power issue, the TVA dams never would have been built. To deny that is sheer hypocrisy . . . Mr. Lilienthal's byproduct theory is a subterfuge...
...some 1,500 residents of Shawneetown, Ill., sheltered behind their 60-foot flood wall, lost contact with Harrisburg, Ill., 23 miles away. The great Ohio Basin flood had cut them off from their nearest municipal neighbors and the world. As the flood waters rose, a Harrisburg ham (amateur short-wave operator), Robert Tompkins Anderson, volunteered to set up an observation post as near as he could get to Shawneetown and establish two-way radio communication with relief agencies that were trying to bring help...
...collegians is the TaxCENTinels, formed at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N. Y. Procedure of the organization is this: First, collect all the pennies available in a town or city, forcing business men and bankers to be handicapped by their scarcity. (R. P. I. students collected 250,000.) Second, flood the town with pennies by paying 25 per cent of all bills in pennies, the 25 per cent representing the estimated hidden tax in every item purchased. Follow this picture-and-paragraph story of the TaxCENTinels...
Joseph T. Doyle, Charles D. Duffy, Charles D. Dyer, Lawrence F. Ebb, James B. Fearon, Richard R. Flood, Caleb Foote, Frederick W. Fuller...
...other place in the country, Harvard is a gleaming pool of intellectual activity, a spring of sparkling facilities for cultural broadening. few students take full advantage of these opportunities, most of them plodding dully through their sixteen routine courses, unconscious of the flood around them. Yet, many of these intellectual draughts are free to any who will drink-to any who will take the time to audit courses or sit in occasional out-of-course lectures. Most students are aware of this; the crime is that so few avail themselves...