Word: gulf
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...roaring torrent. Scrambling from their houses, lacking time even to clothe themselves, men, women and children half-waded, half-swam to unbroken sections of the levee. Five hours later Melville was from 10 to 15 feet under water with most of its houses sweeping in fragments toward the Gulf...
...Southern runs due south from Kansas City, Mo., through Pittsburg, Kan., Joplin, Mo., Fort Smith, Ark., Shreveport, La., to Port Arthur, Tex.,* on the Gulf of Mexico. It carries grain, livestock, minerals, cotton...
...Katie" runs from St. Louis to Kansas City, Mo., then due south, parallel to the. K. C. Southern, through Parsons, Kan., Muskogee, Okla., Dallas, Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston, Tex., to Galveston, Tex., on the Gulf of Mexico. Its commodities are those of the K. C. Southern, plus merchandise transshipped from the East at St. Louis...
...Bayou de Glaize line of defense, flood waters swept through the sugar-belt district of Louisiana, threatened to add 125,000 new refugees to the total of flood fugitives. The Bayou de Glaize defenses ran, roughly speaking, east and west through Avoyelles Parish, about 90 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. Having broken through this line on a front of some 25 miles (in a straight east-west line) the water was expected to continue almost unhindered to the Gulf. It should empty into the Bays of Vermilion and the Cote Blanche, some 100 miles west of New Orleans...
Predictions. Milton B. Medary Jr., president of the Institute, denied the existence of a gulf between the material and the beautiful; begged people to stop asking for "a truly American architecture," for which the necessary isolation has been destroyed...