Word: ouachita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present flood in part foiled these plans. It was not the superflood planned for. Most of the big tributaries, such as the White, Arkansas and Ouachita Rivers, were below record heights. But the Ohio was far above its highest record made in 1913, and since the Ohio enters the Mississippi higher than all the others, the Army's flood control works from Cairo to the White River were receiving a much more severe test than the Army's superflood contemplated...
...deplore the shabby wrapping of the rest of U. S. cotton. Today Anderson, Clayton operate traveling gins in sparsely-settled areas of Mexico, compresses to reduce the size of ordinary gin bales for overseas shipment, warehouses with a capacity of 2,000,000 bales, a barge line on the Ouachita, Mississippi and Warrior Rivers to carry cotton to tidewater. It runs a school to teach the fine art of cotton grading, finances cotton growing in irrigated sections, has even distributed hogs to improve the lot of the cotton grower...
Twelve miles southeast of Hot Springs, Ark. on the Ouachita River is a power dam. Behind the dam is a good-sized lake. In the lake is an island and on the island is Couchwood, summer home of Harvey Crowley Couch. Mr. Couch built not only the rambling redwood log cabin that accommodates 25 guests in every luxury but also the dam that made the lake. The lake he named after his daughter Catherine; the dam, which he built for his Arkansas Light & Power Co., he named after onetime State Republican Boss Remmel...
Commonwealth College was founded in 1923. on a 320-acre plot near the Talihina Highway in the Ouachita Mountains. The founders were Dr. William Edward Zeuch (pronounced Zoyk) of the University of Illinois, and Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, Labor lecturer, onetime (1912-14) international secretary of the Socialist Party of America. Mrs. O'Hare was once kissed by Anatole France when she appeared before an international Socialist gathering. A pacifist, she was imprisoned for 14 months during the War under the Espionage Act. In founding Commonwealth College. Dr. Zeuch and Mrs. O'Hare espoused no one dogma. Their "Commoners...