Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after year successive Presidents of the U. S. turned a deaf ear-until Depression's 1933. Then with statesmen fully alive to the burden, political and military, of U. S. responsibility for 7,083 islands half a world away, with U. S. sugar producers equally dismayed by the flood of duty-free sugar coming thence, Congress at last offered the Philippines their freedom, after a ten-year trial period. Out from under the first offer Philippine politicians managed to wriggle. When it was renewed last spring, and served up on a silver platter by Franklin Roosevelt himself, the Philippines...
Exuberantly the Committee set out to produce a plan which in grandeur and sweep should be worthy of its subject. Power, navigation, flood control, low-water control, erosion control, water supply, sanitation, irrigation, industry, commerce, water storage, forestry, recreation, wildlife conservation and employment were woven into "a pattern on which are dependent the lives and happiness of millions now living and millions still to be born." Chief components...
...need not be a prophet," warned President William Henry Dick of the Mississippi River Flood Control Association last week, "to forecast another flood for this spring...
Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year. Readers can now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give as presents. Following is a list designed to be helpful...
...Republican James Montgomery Beck. Soon after the Grubb ruling last week Edison Electric Institute released a 57-page opinion on TVA constitutionality by Messrs. Baker and Beck. Following Judge Grubb's reasoning, Attorneys Baker & Beck concluded: "Neither the power to regulate interstate commerce (including specifically powers over navigation and flood control), nor any of the war powers, nor the power to dispose of government property, sustain the authority of the Congress to enact the Tennessee Valley Act of 1933 and to create the TVA thereunder...