Word: floods
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Desha Bank & Trust Co. building at Arkansas City, Ark., stands a clock, the hands of which point to twelve minutes past two. They have been recording that moment for some eight weeks, ever since the Mississippi flood hit the town and stopped the clock. They may continue to register 2:12 for weeks, perhaps months, to come. For most of Arkansas City is still under water and in Arkansas City, as in thousands of other towns, villages and plantations in the flood district, the aftermath of the catastrophe threatens to cause more loss, more suffering than the catastrophe itself...
Fourteen months ago such a tide of resentment was at the flood. It might have led King Ferdinand of Rumania on to better fortune for his dynasty, had he dared to brave Jon Bratiano then. Instead Ferdinand I, weak, invalided, accepted M. Bratiano's resignation as Premier without comment, and meekly called one of the Bratiano henchmen, General Fofoza Alexander Averescu, to the Premiership...
Levees. Popular confidence in the levee system has been shaken, if not destroyed, by their failure to prevent the present flood from inundating some 20,000 square miles and making homeless some 600,000 people. But expert opinion still clings to them as the backbone of flood prevention. Doubtless they will, in the future, be built higher and stronger, but, as far as can at present be determined, the levee will always carry the main burden of confining the river and to it all other methods will be not more than adjuncts, auxiliaries. Writing for the New York World Herbert...
Meanwhile in Arkansas, Illinois and Missouri a new flood was driving valley-dwellers away from the homes to which they had returned with the receding of the flood waters which now are running into the Gulf of Mexico. The new flood, caused by heavy rains, is not so great as its predecessor, but passes through a country whose shattered levees offer relatively little resistance. Crops, hastily planted in still muddy ground, have been inundated again, and from 15,000 to 20,000 persons in Arkansas alone were once more forced to abandon their homes before the new onrush...
...Louisiana, official evidence that the main flood is over was furnished by the resignation of onetime Governor John M. Parker as Relief Director. "The life-saving stage of the flood is over and my share of the task is done," he said. He added: "I feel it my duty to pay tribute to those whose work has been of untold value to the Mississippi Valley and especially to Herbert Hoover whose powers of organization, engineering and deep interest in humanity have again been manifested in saving more life and property than ever before in his memorable career...