Word: hwangho
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mississippi River should leap in flood from its channel at Memphis and lash cross-country to a new sea mouth somewhere in Florida, the chaos and horror would be as indescribable as they were in China last week when the mighty Hwangho River finally made good its threat (TIME, July 22) to quit the channel in which it had flowed since...
Wicked Pennsylvania flood waters drowned a dozen persons last week. In New York harassed Governor Herbert H. Lehman dashed about inspecting the $25,000,000 wreckage left by an upstate flood that had taken 42 lives. And in China the colossal Yangtze and Hwangho Rivers cut loose with a deluge of Biblical fury, drowned as many as 1,000 Chinese in a single hour, kept right on drowning them by thousands and left wasp-waisted little Chinese Dictator Chiang Kai-shek once more acutely conscious that, when the heavens are angry, praying, trembling man is no better than a water...
...unconfirmed report said that farther upstream the City of Ichang (pop. 60,000) disappeared with a woosh, was "wiped out." But all this was merely the doing of the Yangtze ("Willow") River, sometimes called "The River of Golden Sand" by poets because of its yellow silt. Farther north the Hwangho or Yellow River, equally bilious in color, was re-earning last week its age-old nickname. "China's Sorrow." In 1854 the Hwangho. which had emptied for half a millennium into the Yellow Sea, arose in a flood so cataclysmic that it changed its entire course and now empties...
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