Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...power plant would furnish electricity to at least twelve states and should be operated by the government rather than private individuals or corporations, for the dam has direct influence on flood control and navigation. Moreover the government already owns the site and therefore would not have to incur the expense and the consequent higher rates that an outsider would be forced to charge...
Aviators disappear in mid-ocean, and there is no great surprise, no intense shock, for the air is so new a field that man is still a little surprised at being able to fly. But when a coastal steamer meets doom on its accustomed journey, or when a flood destroys a valley, the old elements laugh at the real impotence of humanity. The claims of chemical rain-makers and cloud-destroyers have so far met with failure as complete as that of learns. Snow, rain, wind can still toy with man, much as in those days; the superman who rules...
With the American system of secondary education floundering about in a flood of adverse criticism and depreciation at the hands of contemporary critics, and, as might be expected, the European system enjoying a corresponding elevation in this country, it is interesting to learn that Great Britain's educators are by no means satisfied with the state of affairs in their secondary schools. It is charged that the cardinal vice there is the consistant cramming of students of 11 and 12 years of age in order that they may make the transition, from primary to secondary institutions, the latter being...
...Reminded by the Red Cross that 71,052 refugees from last year's flood were still being fed and sheltered by charity in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, President Coolidge evinced an ever-increasing. desire to have Congress get a flood measure passed this session. He looked upon the measure drafted and reported by Chairman Jones of the Senate Commerce Committee and found some good in it, since it recognized the principle of local contribution and since it placed Chief of Engineers Jadwin, and a civilian engineer to be appointed by the President, on a board of three (with...
...Passed a bill authorizing the Interior Department to promote conservation irrigation and flood control on the Pueblo Indian lands in the Rio Grande Valley, New Mexico...