Word: flooding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...such was the New Madrid Floodway through a strip of eastern Missouri below Cairo. Another was the Eudora Floodway, in Arkansas and Louisiana, to carry floods from the neighborhood of the mouth of the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level...
...present flood in part foiled these plans. It was not the superflood planned for. Most of the big tributaries, such as the White, Arkansas and Ouachita Rivers, were below record heights. But the Ohio was far above its highest record made in 1913, and since the Ohio enters the Mississippi higher than all the others, the Army's flood control works from Cairo to the White River were receiving a much more severe test than the Army's superflood contemplated...
...that reason the Mississippi levees just below Cairo were in great danger. For that reason Memphis expected a flood 5 to 10 ft. above all previous records. For that reason 50,000 refugees from the lowlands were streaming into Memphis. Down at New Orleans the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened two days before the water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless...
Conclusive evidence that the U. S. was having a real flood came from Shanghai. Grateful Chinese decided to raise $60,000 to send to the U. S. for flood relief...
Last week the Nation agreed that Press and Radio had done a fine job on the 1937 Flood (see p. 17). But last week in Tacoma, the solid members of that town's Chamber of Commerce sat down to compose as grave a memorandum of censure as Press and Radio ever received from a responsible U. S. body. Grievance of the Tacoma businessmen was the handling by newsgatherers for ink & air of the kidnap-murder of 10-year-old Charles Mattson (TIME, Jan. 18). Sternly the Chamber of Commerce members agreed that newsmen had made "gross mistakes that many...