Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week Senator Reed Smoot of Utah read Herber C. Hoover's report on flood conditions (see catastrophe) ; came to the conclusion that a special Congressional session, not later than Nov. 1, was "absolutely necessary if flood sufferers are to obtain prompt and adequate relief." It was recalled that Senator Smoot has been urging a special session for more than a month; that he is Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee; that even after perusal of the Hoover report he put the passage of the Deficiency BUI (filibustered out at the last session of Congress) as the first duty...
...President at Ouster Park last week came Herbert C. Hoover, reported on conditions in the flood area. His report centred upon the following points: The Federal Government normally appropriates some $16,000,000 yearly for control and navigation of the Mississippi River. This sum should be increased by from $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 annually, and the increase should tinue for ten years, making a total extra expenditure of from $150,000,000 to $200,000,000. Flood prevention plans should include the building of higher, wider levees; the construction of a spillway* in Louisiana (probably using...
...Research Report...
...they had been reckoning their position and nervously gauging their gasoline. They said they were about 700 miles from Hawaii and added, "Only enough gas for one more hour. S. O. S. S. O. S. S. O. S." Then within 30 minutes, they pulled themselves together and corrected this report to enough gas for four hours, but still, S. O. S., S. O. S. S. O. S.! Three steamships in that part of the Pacific opened their drafts and started toward the plane's course. The next message was panicky, "We are landing in the sea. We have...
Thousands of South Australians,* peacefully replete with dinner, tuned their radio sets idly one evening last week to pick up Station 5-CL at Adelaide. A little jazz, they thought, might assist digestion; and at worst there would be the weather report and a bedtime tale. Suddenly, as Station 5-CL came in on loud speakers and head phones, the digestion of numerous listeners was upset by a shock so powerful that Adam's apples bounded in male throats and robust women clutched at their hearts...