Word: floods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the charges brought by TVA's ousted Chairman Arthur Ernest Morgan against his enthusiastic young colleague, Director David Eli Lilienthal, was the accusation that Powerman Lilienthal wanted to charge the bulk of TVA's expenses up to navigation and flood control instead of to power development, thus reducing TVA's yardstick for private power rates to pure "subterfuge." Until last week neither utility men nor the public knew just what equations TVA did use in working out its rates. Last week, as the joint House-Senate investigating committee and its counsel, Francis Biddle, squared away...
...which the Authority spent on Wilson, Wheeler and Norris Dams, $49,360,179, or 52% of the cost, has been allotted to power, the rest to flood control and navigation, none for fertilizer or national defense. The 52% figure was arrived at by charging to power the $23,967,177 spent specifically for power development, plus 40% of the cost remaining when this and specific expenditures for flood control and navigation had been deducted. With rates based on this allocation, opined Chairman Harcourt Morgan, TVA's power sales "will be sufficient to cover all of the costs of operation...
...game of war it is customary for combatants to assert that their own plays are God-guided, that the opposition's quarterback is the Devil. Last week, when diabolical forces of nature-rains & flood -washed out those of man in central China, the ground was no sooner covered with muddy water than the air was filled with mutual recriminations...
...Yellow River to flood is nothing new. Its Chinese name, Hwang Ho, is taken from hwang tu, the "yellow dirt" which it carries down in great quantity from Shansi and Shensi. This pale silt is constantly being dropped on the riverbed, which consequently steadily rises above the adjoining land. To keep the river in line the Chinese have long built dikes. Rising floor and walls have made the river an aqueduct, lifted its surface at high water as much as 30 feet above the surrounding plain. So frequently has the ochre stream cracked its dikes and devastated the countryside that...
Last week "The Ungovernable" lashed out with a flood which promised to change not only its own course but also the course of the whole Sino-Japanese War. Severe breaks in the dikes near Kaifeng sent a five-foot wall of water fanning out over a 500-square-mile area, spreading death. Toll from Yellow River floods is not so much from quick drowning as from gradual disease and starvation. The river's filth settles ankle-deep on the fields, mothering germs, smothering crops. Last week, about 500,000 peasants were driven from 2,000 communities to await rescue...