Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Ohio flood rolled down the Mississippi to New Orleans and apparent danger of leaking levees passed, Congress sent to the President a bill setting up a $20,000,000 Disaster Loan Corp. As a subsidiary of the R. F. C. to make rehabilitation loans to flood victims. He promptly signed...
...smoky fog, and had been there for many winter weeks. The murk over St. Louis has been so thick that the new Governor of Missouri, Lloyd Crow Stark, an enterprising nurseryman, could not see the city streets when he flew over during an inspection of the Ohio-Mississippi flood. He wished that Mayor Dickmann would sign a pending city ordinance to abate the smoke which makes St. Louis grimier than notorious Pittsburgh...
...farm program is not an idle promise, and that something will at least be attempted before the next harvest period. Never has assistance to the farmer been so vital to the welfare of the whole nation as at the present time. With returning industrial activity and the mid-winter flood disasters combining to make many a farmer's prospect seem proportionately gloomier than that of his countrymen, some measure is inevitable, and the one suggested by the President appears logical and sound...
...Cortland, N. Y., seeing a newspaper photograph of a pair of cows stranded on a raft, Farmer Harold Griswold added to his flood relief contributions of potatoes and cabbage, one bale...
Busy as beavers these days are Josephine Roche, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in charge of the U. S. Public Health Service, and her surgeon general, Thomas Parran Jr. They have the sanitation of the Ohio and Mississippi flood areas to supervise (see p. 19), the campaign against venereal diseases to energize (see above) and, a favorite project of both, they are starting a new Federal farm-hospital for narcotic addicts at Fort Worth, Tex. Miss Roche and Dr. Parran considered this project so important that, prior to the Ohio flood disaster, they had arranged to go to Fort Worth...