Word: riverfronts
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...throb could be felt along New Orleans' 11½ miles of riverfront wharves. There, one night last week, 60 ships lay in a driving rain while tooting switch engines slammed boxcars, oilcars and flatcars along the quayside...
...flood-swollen Mississippi inch up on the levees. One night this week, the flood reached its awesome crest. Under steady pressure from weeks of rain throughout its vast basin, the Mississippi rose to its highest point in 103 years (39.3 feet), spilled into the city's grimy riverfront sections. Then, while hundreds of civilians and troops feverishly sandbagged key levees on the East St. Louis side, one of the sharpest earthquakes in St. Louis history rocked buildings, felled chimneys and split sidewalks...
...Cotton Carnival time in Memphis. Skyrockets whooshed into the muddy Mississippi; searchlights glared above crowds along the riverfront. There were street dances, the crash of band music, the clack and jangle of noisemakers. Bunting was everywhere...
...present midtown and downtown business sections, the theater district, Central Park, and Broadway would be undisturbed. But the rest of Manhattan, now "all mixed up," would be reshuffled in a more orderly scheme: placing industry along the belt highway, housing in separate areas and parks around the riverfront fringes. In the now-blighted downtown area between Canal Street and Washington Square, Herrey's plan proposes a great, permanent Fair, which might include a proposed fashion center...
Rain fell on Washington, cold, dismal rain. Along riverfront streets pocked with puddles the President drove through the chilly evening to the yacht Potomac's mooring. He boarded her, set off down river for a few days' rest. He could keep in touch with Washington by wireless. Any urgent message could be transmitted...