Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January, the water of the present flood. The heaviest portion, from 16 in. to over 20 in., fell close to the main Ohio and Mississippi valleys from a point below Cincinnati to a point in upper Arkansas. The distribution in 1927 was similar except that it was still lower down the main streams. As General Jadwin said: "A flood of the Mississippi is not the torrential rush of water from denuded hillsides, but is the slowly rising, long continued outpour of the drainage from a vast region...
...Pittsburgh, 10 at Wheeling, 21 at Cincinnati at week's end (see map), the still-rising 1937 flood had already taken more lives than the 1936 inundation of the upper Ohio and Susquehanna slopes. For size and damage it was a far greater national disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never had been such a flood. The reason for last year's flood was that the winter was too cold. The snow stayed on the ground too deep and too long. When it suddenly thawed, the water ran off in a rush because the ground was still...
Thursday at n p. m. City Manager Frank Sheehan ordered sirens and factory whistles to be sounded and sewers were opened in the lower sections of Portsmouth so that the town could flood itself in self-defense. The National Guard and other relief agencies began sending 25,000 inhabitants to Chillicothe and Columbus. "The Bottoms'' of Cincinnati is the wholesale and tenement district from which the rest of the town, perched like Rome on seven hills, lifts the hem of its municipal garment. Last week, after an unprecedented rainfall of ten in. in ten days, as the river...
...that is one way to go nowhere fast." Not price-cutting but price-raising disturbed Jay D. Runkle of Marshall Field's New York Office. In prices the merchant's interest is close to that of the customer, opposed to that of the manufacturer. The lower the price the easier it is to sell the goods. In viewing with alarm the commodity boom, Retailer Runkle opined: "It would be a serious thing for all of us if prices got out of bounds." Something the retail leaders wanted to keep in bounds quite as much as prices was internal...
...other factor which has made this flood a record breaker is the effect of an earlier flood in the lower Ohio Valley. This is acting as a water blockade, and is multiplying the destructive forces upstream. The rainfall in some parts of the Vailey has been as much as 20 inches since January 1. The significance of this figure can be better realized when compared with the record rainfall registered on Blue Hill for December, 9.01 inches...