Word: levelers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...station. Indianapolis diked itself in after a body was seen floating down the White River. Kentucky's Green, Kentucky and other rivers, fed by continuing downpours, were still rising at week's end. Louisville was the hardest hit city in the whole flood area. Sitting on comparatively level ground where the Ohio drops 26 ft. in two mi., Louisville watched its west end sink under the yellow torrent which drove 200,000 from their homes. Telephone service was disrupted. The city was put on a two-hour water ration each day. As sewage backed up in the municipal...
Even so. when the Ohio rushed down on Cairo, Ill. at the junction of the Mississippi with 57 ft. of water, almost a foot above the record level, Army engineers decided to use force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres...
...average Sunday attendance of over 600 is an increase of almost a hundred over that of ten years ago. In commenting on the daily level of 61, Dean Sperry raises doubt that any other show daily services on over 200 days in church with an equal constituency can the year gathering an equal number. "He finds, however, that the House plan has greatly reduced the upperclassmen in attendance and in all probability accounts for the fact that the congregation is mainly made up of Freshmen living in the Yard and of Graduate students on their way from North...
Goodrich has invented a simple method of filling the tire with water from an ordinary garden hose. Water under normal faucet pressure suffices, is pumped in until the level reaches the valve. Then air inflation is added as usual. In winter, a calcium chloride solution prevents freezing. During operation over bumps, the water remains at the bottom of the tire, provides normal cushioning without bouncing...
...commodity chart was receiving from U. S. businessmen an attention usually reserved for the stock tables. The upsurge in commodities which got under way last summer and developed into the most significant economic trend of 1936 has not carried through to any important extent into the general retail price level. Nor do all merchants expect the retail rise to come this spring. In Montgomery Ward's spring & summer catalog, out last week, mail-order prices were actually down by about...