Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government will have about $3,500,000,000 for 3,800,000 jobs in the year ending July 1. Roads and streets topped the new WPA list with an allotted $413,250,000, followed by public buildings ($156,750,000), parks ($156,750,000), public utilities ($171,000,000), flood control ($128,250,000), white-collar projects ($85,500,000), women's projects ($85,500,000), miscellaneous work projects ($71,250,000), National Youth Administration ($71,250,000) and $85,500,000 for rural rehabilitation...
...President Morgan split the college's students into two groups, shipped one off for five-or-ten weeks of work in offices or factories while the other studied on the campus. No professional educator but an engineer who helped harness the turbulent Mi ami River after the Dayton flood of 1913, President Morgan was released on leave from Antioch three years ago to serve as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority Last week Antioch's trustees an nounced that their loan of a president to TVA was permanent, that in President Morgan's place they had chosen...
Cleon B. White of the National Broadcasting Company acted as Master of Ceremonies. The Freshman committee consisted of: Richard R. Flood, chairman; Elliott Bacon, John C. Bowen, Charles Burwell, George Earle, William C. Flynn, H. Rushton Harwood, Donald McDonald, Hugh McNeil, Robert W. Sarnoff, and Clifford W. Wilson...
Sirs: My attention has been repeatedly called to a paragraph in the April 13 issue of TIME in which it was stated that H. J. Heinz Co. had contributed foods that had been under Pittsburgh flood waters to the Red Cross. . . . This remark is not true and is unfair to H. J. Heinz Co., and to the Red Cross as well. When Mr. Howard Heinz, president of H. J. Heinz Co., saw the devastating effects of the St. Patrick's Day flood, he immediately gave us two cars of food products-one for Pittsburgh and half a car each...
...theory that if a can can keep soup in it can keep water out, TIME never questioned the quality of the unlabeled Heinz products whose story, along with many another as apocryphal, washed out of Pittsburgh at flood time...