Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority had little to do with this startling amenability of the House. It was due almost entirely to a paragraph hastily stuck into the Committee report at the last minute by request of President Roosevelt: if necessary the entire $790,000,000 Relief appropriation* would be spent for Flood Relief. No Representative wanted to vote against Flood Relief and, on the flood crests of the Ohio and the Mississippi, Franklin Roosevelt's Relief program rode to an easy victory. Only flaw in his success in cutting Relief costs was the rapidly growing realization that the cost of Flood Relief...
...week's end at Wheeling, W. Va.'s island in midriver, householders were scrubbing mud from their recently submerged floors, shoveling debris from their sidewalks. Portsmouth, Ohio, a sump within its $750,000 seawall which the flood had topped, watched the muddy waters gradually sink back through the sewer gates as the river receded. Cincinnati, perched on its hills, up to its waist in water, felt the chilly flood fall slowly back, trembled as its gas mains were reported leaking,, a bigger fire menace than when gas tanks bobbed among its factories in the flood (TIME...
Saddest of all was Louisville, Ky. which has virtually no hills. Three-fourths of the city, at flood crest, was inundated. Its business and residential districts alike were in water, its Negro shanties and mansions of the rich. Its electricity was off, its power-station partly submerged in the yellow flood. Over 230,000 Louisville people were homeless, at least 200 dead (no official figures), few of them by drowning, most from exposure. Property loss was estimated...
These were the sectors where the worst of the flood had passed. Downstream, men were still struggling too excitedly to begin counting their rosary of grief. Evansville, Ind., part of which is perched on a snow-covered bluff, looked down on a yellow sea where its business district and part of its residential district had been. There Paul Schmidt, chairman of the local Red Cross, got a lift from a passing skiff which promptly sank under him. Before a boatload of cameramen would rescue him they made him turn his profile so they could take his picture...
...nearly 200 more from points as far distant as Boston. It had 15 airplanes in action. The U. S. Public Health Service was busy shipping anti-typhoid and smallpox vaccine, diphtheria antitoxin, influenza and pneumonia serum; was mobilizing a corps of sanitary engineers to face new problems as the flood recedes. Revenue agents were ordered to give up "still" chasing and use their cars to transport refugees. Even the Narcotics Bureau was busy shipping supplies of codeine and other needed drugs to the flood area. WPA had thousands of men at work on the levees, and this week Relief Administrator...