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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...split into two sections. West of the Atchafalaya River the flood waters which last fortnight crumbled the Bayou de Glaize levees moved south, poured into the Atchafalaya River far more water than its banks could hold. This was the western half of the flood. The eastern half was the main stream of the Mississippi...
...defense centred in the point of this finger. The levee at McCrea, on the east bank of the Atchafalaya in the parish of Pointe Coupee, was weakening. At last reports it appeared likely that the east-Atchafalaya system would give way, permitting waters from the Atchafalaya to join the main Mississippi stream after flooding the dry strip between the rivers. In this strip, about 100 miles long and 25 miles wide, are the parishes of Pointe Coupee, Iberville and Assumption with a population of about 80,000. Five other parishes to the south and west would be partially flooded. Meanwhile...
...believing that the Russians would use it in some way as propaganda. Chairman Henry Mauris Robinson of the U. S. Delegation took the position, however, that it would be ridiculous to refuse the Russians insertion of a simple statement of facts plain to anyone?namely that there are two main economic systems: Capitalism and Communism...
...Avoyelles flood came from the inland sea formed by last fortnight's levee-breaks in Northern Louisiana. Through this inland sea was moving the main flood crest of the Mississippi itself, headed southeast through the Old River to the main channel of the Mississippi itself. Thus the Avoyelles flood was a sort of gigantic overflow, distinct from the central stream that raced toward Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Sweeping last week through Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri...
...World Economic Conference in session at Geneva (TIME, May 16) under the auspices of the League of Nations, adjourned last week from its large public sittings into three main commissions which began respectively to study commerce, industry and agriculture...