Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main feature of the exhibit, is a group of "magazines" produced by Miss Lowell and her childhood companions at the age of ten to fourteen. One of these, entitled the "Sevenels Gazette," was presented in handwriting, and contained a story, "The Bloody Hand," together with several advertisements, such as "Wanted! A Gentleman to clean knives, whose moustaches curl up not down, and who has no objection to being called Alphius...
...What's wrong with the spoils system?" bawled Oklahoma's Jack Nichols last week when a bill to make the main features of the Executive Order the permanent law of the land came up in the House for debate. "America has grown great on spoils," declared Representative Nichols. "I can do a better job of picking the postmasters for my district than any Civil Service Commissioner...
...question of building headwater reservoirs, Army Engineers pointed out that it would take over $1,000,000,000 to do any sort of job to compare with their proposed $300,000,000 levee system. Furthermore reservoirs in the headwaters-they are not practical in the flat valleys of the main stream-might not do the trick. A large part of the rain that causes floods falls in the main valleys. The U. S. Weather Bureau last week published a map showing the distribution of rainfall during the first 25 days of January, the water of the present flood. The heaviest...
...flood control plan (General Jadwin's plan modified) was to provide protection from the maximum possible flood. Army Engineers and the Weather Bureau calculated this "superflood" by taking the maximum known flood of each of the Mississippi's great tributaries and assuming that they all hit the main river at once-which they have never done...
...Arkansas and Louisiana, to carry floods from the neighborhood of the mouth of the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level so floods would wash over them. Still a fourth protection was devised, the Bonnet Carre Spillway not far above New Orleans...