Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...that all was not yet dry in the Mississippi Valley. Some 170,000 acres are still under water; 130,000 in Louisiana, 21,000 in Mississippi, 10,000 in Arkansas, 8,500 in Illinois. The Red Cross is at present providing food, clothing and shelter for 130,000 destitute flood victims. It is estimated that a total of 12,000,000 acres were inundated. Of these, only 2,170,000 acres have been successfully replanted with crops...
Soon Secretary of Commerce Herbert C. Hoover will make another tour on the Mississippi Valley to obtain final information concerning flood relief and flood control legislation for submission to Congress...
...Flood of 1927 BY THE COLORED PEOPLE OF ARKANSAS...
Special Session. Shortly after the flood waters began to recede, the suggestion was made that Congress should call a special session to consider flood relief. This idea apparently did not,appeal to the President and inasmuch as only the President could put it into effect, prospects for a special session seemed remote. Last week Senators Smoot and Harrison (see TAXATION) joined in a special session call, but the Utah senator seemed primarily and the Mississippi senator considerably interested in the matter of tax reduction rather than in the matter of flood relief. With Mr. Coolidge, as far as is known...
...Mary Brian, and the main theme based on that good old folksong-how the hero fixed up the heroine's papa's business. This was accomplished by driving the Stoddard tractor over oozy roads in time to arrive at the dam with tons of dynamite before the flood washed out the entire' valley. That "sells" the population on Papa Stoddard's tractors and closes the hero's deal for the heroine's hand. It is the kind of summer orchestration that needs no encore...