Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calamity Relief. "In the fall of 1931, came the Great Yangtze flood which affected an area of 70,000 square miles inhabited by 25,000,000 people. Something like 140,000 persons were drowned and crops worth $900,000,000 lost. To meet this calamity a National Flood Relief Commission was established to furnish relief to those suffering from the flood, and to provide for the repair of the broken dykes, and the building of them upon such a higher, larger, and stronger scale, that future floods might be prevented. Much foreign financial aid was sent to China at this...
...When I first surveyed the flooded area,' he says, 'I felt that the dykes could not possibly be repaired before the next flood season. But it was done within six months, and by Chinese engineers. There was not a foreigner in the lot. . . . These dykes of ours were many of them 140 feet broad at the base and 30 feet broad at the top and they were 30 to 50 feet high. . . . At one time we had 1,400,000 of people working on the main river dykes. The amount of dirt used would put a dyke around the earth...
...Council hopes to have the H.A.A. flood some accessible piece of ground, such as the Jarvis courts, and maintain a rink there for the use of the teams. Since the stadium, back in its earlier days, used to shelter the pucksters of the University from the wind, the possibility of flooding a part of it this year was suggested...
...Department has now proved to its satisfaction that the Straus Hall flood is not escaping from city mains and has abandoned its holes opposite the University Theater to take up an old stand on Quincy Street. When it has finished these diggings, the Department may go over to the other side of the Union and attack the new concrete road on Harvard Street, under which new leaks are making their appearance...
Henry W. Clark, Secretary of the Committee on the Regulation of Athletic Sports, announced that the committee has asked Adolph W. Samborski '26, Instructor in Physical Education, to consult the Interhouse Athletic Committee to see whether enough students are interested to warrant the expense necessary to flood the courts...