Word: greatly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...known that he was looking for three other warrior-engineer-executives. They will be General Brown's lieutenants, one in local charge of the flood relief project (Cairo, 111., to the Gulf), one in charge of the Mississippi developments north of Cairo, one in charge of the Great Lakes and proposed St. Lawrence waterway...
...over it. Recently the President offered to suspend judgment (and work) on part of the project (TIME, Sept. 23). The trouble brewing is the objections of landowners along the Boeuf and Atchafalaya Rivers. These are two subtributaries of the Mississippi which run practically parallel to the course of the great river in Louisiana and Arkansas. The flood relief plan devised under General Jadwin and adopted by Congress proposed that these valleys shall be used to draw off excess waters in times of great floods...
...compensation for landowners there was provided by the plan because its supporters declared: 1) that those valleys had always been inundated in great floods; 2) that they would be deprived of no flood protection that they had previously had; 3) that they would be inundated only once in ten or 15 years; 4) that the land there was about 80% swamp and forest...
...from the sinking of the Canadian rumrunner I'm Alone last spring (TIME, April 1). The I'm Alone was allegedly "hotly pursued" from within the 12-mile limit. The null was without doubt fired upon almost instanter and her whereabouts at the time will make a great difference...
...campaigner is Major General Smedley Darlington Butler. His great campaign (1924-25) as Director of the Philadelphia Department of Public Safety was cut short when politicians decided that his drying-up tactics were somewhat too robust. Last week, as Commander of the Quantico (Va.) Marine base, he launched another campaign when he discovered one of his non-commissioned officers tending bar for a Quantico village bootlegger. He prohibited his enlisted men from going to the village. Frantic merchants, losing lucrative soldier trade, appealed to the General. He retorted dourly that he would parade his men back to town...