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...Beckett, Mass., William Ballon, owner of the reservoir above the town, sat waiting in his automobile until the dam began to crumble. Then he sped, honking, to warn his towns-fellows. All escaped but Mrs. Justine Carroll, aged 60, who hesitated fatally as mills, stores, houses, barns swept down upon...
...Reservoirs. A system of reservoirs in the upper reaches of streams tributary to the Mississippi would, it is claimed, absorb the spring overflow of these streams, thus catching the floods at an early stage and eliminating them. Such a system would, however, be tremendously expensive (Dayton, Ohio, alone spent $30,000,000 on a reservoir project after the 1913 Dayton Flood), and would not affect rain-swollen streams at points below the reservoir sites...
Basins. A sort of dry-reservoir idea is proposed in a system of basins-stretches of lowlands bordering the river and surrounded by levees. These basins would be dry land in normal times, at flood period an opening would be made in the levees and the basin flooded, thus taking up some of the overflow. These basins could be owned by the Government and rented out for private farming with the understanding that they would have to be inundated in flood time...
...Reserve Bank has a vast reservoir of gold and lawful money to lend out. Each has a vaster credit. For every $100 of specie or currency in its vaults it can issue $250 worth of its own bank notes; and, besides, for every $100 deposited with it it can give almost $200 of credit. The credit of Federal Reserve Banks is as expansive as wishes, and as flexible. Men scoffed at the Federal Reserve Bank law when President Woodrow Wilson approved it in 1913. In 1914, it was thought that the Federal Reserve Banks prevented a U. S. business crisis...
...telephone. "Thank you", she said to the voice. Then she called up a housewife whose name began with A and repeated to her what the voice had said. She put in another call and another, repeating to sleepy storekeepers and clerks and villagers what the voice had said: "The Reservoir has broken. A flood is coming." Before she got to H in the directory the flood was up to her knees; when she got through Z the switchboard was swamped, the walls were crumbling. She had her husband splice the toll line to a phone in the wall, talked...