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...lower Mississippi it was still prime news. From Cairo, Ill. to New Orleans an army of 125,000 reliefers, convicts and volunteers worked feverishly to raise and strengthen the thousand-mile, billion-dollar levee system which stood between them and disaster. The levees were still holding as the hump in the river's back reached Memphis at week's end. High wind or heavy rain might still send the swollen river roaring through and over them. It was going to be an anxious three weeks until the worst U. S. flood rolled out into the Gulf and history...
...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. From Cairo down, engineers held their breath, for the hump of the flood was yet to come...
...railroad business is worse. When Business improves, so does railroad business. The U. S. railroad business began to roll out of its rusty industrial siding two years ago. By the beginning of last year it had clacked on to the main line and was chuffing up the hump of recovery. Last week, as 1936 came to an accounting close, dispatches of good news were coming in from all over the nation's rail system and the roar and smoke of recovery filled...
...other side were the peace-passionate President, Congress and State Department of the U. S., all eager to make these acts crimes faster than they could be performed. Congress got a hump on. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the House was organized at least three days faster than usual. Chairman Pittman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee drafted an eloquent joint resolution with many whereases describing the brutality of the Spanish conflict, the danger of its dragging the U. S. into...
...Moscow, last week, thousands of hatless workers so jampacked the hump-backed surface of Red Square that dozens fainted in the congestion. For hours they listened to Soviet stump-thumpers whipping up enthusiasm for the plight of "brother workers" in Spain, then voted part of their monthly wages for a Spanish Government defense fund. At week's end it was announced that 12,000,000 roubles ($2,400,000; had been collected from this and other Bolshevik mass meetings, transferred through the Soviet State bank to the Spanish Government...