Word: floods
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went on, through hazards of flood, hurricane, earthquake, blizzard, to find another horned owl, 1,000 more birds. All of them he painted patiently, carefully, some of them over & over, until he had 1,065 water colors with which he was satisfied. While Audubon looked for an English publisher for his work, he had considerable trouble proving his point that the birds should be reproduced, as he had painted them, life size. "If large," one publisher wrote of the projected book, "only public institutions and a few noblemen will purchase it. If small, it may sell a thousand copies...
...effort to repair a break in the pipe line when runs from the Charles River to the Eliot House condenser, city workers yesterday afternoon dug a ten foot hole in front of Winthrop House, and employed a gasoline pump to draw off the escaping flood...
...elected the first Democratic mayor of Louisville in 16 years. In Louisville, he staged a financial and governmental reorganization, became president of the Kentucky Municipal League and a director of the U. S. Conference of Mayors, but won his greatest fame when Louisville was swamped by flood last spring. Mayor Miller then evacuated a large part of the population, summoned aid from far & wide, fed refugees, kept the city machinery functioning...
Last week he followed upward another municipal chief who rode to a bigger job on that same flood, former City Manager Clarence Dykstra of Cincinnati, now president of the University of Wisconsin. For Neville Miller, whose term as mayor expires this month, was named assistant to Harold Willis Dodds, president of Prince ton. This means that beginning January 1, Princeton will be distinguished among U. S. universities in being run entirely by experts in municipal government, since President Dodds is already president of the National Municipal League. Assistant Miller will take over the administration in his superior's absence...
...down on it, presumably because it represented government-in-the-movie-business. The River cost just short of $50,000, took a six-man crew six months on a 22,000-mile tour of the Mississippi valley. Just when the camera work seemed finished, in January, came the disastrous flood of last winter. Lorentz and his crew stayed in the flood area until Feb. 24, shot 80,000 feet of film. Only a few hundred feet were used in the picture; the rest went to the Department of Agriculture archives...