Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flood curiosities...
...Paducah, Ky., the Ohio flood waters rose so high in front of the Public Library that Andrew Carnegie's statue was submerged to the chin...
...Flood...
...Manhattan arrived "General" Jacob Sechler Coxey from the flood area brimming with a plan to avert similar catastrophe: to straighten out the Mississippi River from Cairo, Ill. to the Gulf of Mexico, making it 600 miles long instead of the present 1,200. Crowed he: "Henry Ford is just wild about my plan...
...Murray, Ky., unreconstructed Southerners, offended by the term "refugees," welcomed thousands of unkempt flood sufferers as "visiting friends...