Word: flows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Engineers. General Jadwin pointed out then that to reduce a Mississippi flood one foot meant holding out 7,000,000 to 11,000,000 acre-feet of water. If 8,000,000 acres of land were reforested and thereby .held back half an inch more water than would flow off farm land, a flood would be reduced just half an inch. On the question of building headwater reservoirs, Army Engineers pointed out that it would take over $1,000,000,000 to do any sort of job to compare with their proposed $300,000,000 levee system. Furthermore reservoirs...
...great danger. For that reason Memphis expected a flood 5 to 10 ft. above all previous records. For that reason 50,000 refugees from the lowlands were streaming into Memphis. Down at New Orleans the Bonnet Carre Spillway was opened two days before the water rose high enough to flow through it. First break in the Mississippi's walls came in a secondary levee at Bessie, Tenn., a few miles from Tiptonville, sent the flood surging across to cut off a bend in the river threatening little damage unless the onrush should weaken the levee on the Missouri side...
...Captain Ernest Clegg, a British company commander on the Western Front, went to London on leave. While there, he was invited to visit his old friend Captain Kiddle of the dreadnought Revenge, which was anchored with the rest of the British Grand Fleet in Scapa Flow. Mrs. Clegg thought it would be a nice change for her husband, packed him off to Scotland. An hour after Captain Kiddle welcomed his guest on his quarterdeck, the Grand Fleet steamed out on emergency orders and the Battle of Jutland, greatest modern naval engagement...
...have a man of my height [6 ft. 3½ in.] wielding a short-handled shovel." At home and abroad, young Mr. Rockefeller's business last week displayed these proofs of prosperity: ¶ U. S. oil production set a new all-time high with an average daily flow of 3,184,-650 bbl. ¶ Just short of one year ago Tide Water Associated Oil Co. "spudded in" a well in California's Ventura Avenue field six miles from the sea. It was named McGon-ig! No. 12 after the owners of the land...
There has been a high pressure area off the Florida coast for over six weeks, he explained, and this has been causing a steady stream of warm air to flow westward over the Atlantic and then turn north, following the western slopes of the Appalachian Mountains. Over the Ohio Valley, this tropical air meets with a current of cold air from the west which deflects it against the mountains and then forces it to rise...