Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...White River. Some 900 Dartmouth College undergraduates & professors turned out of Hanover, N. H., with picks & shovels, to dig out White River Junction...
...Black River. Mrs. Sarah Pollard, 87, aunt of President Coolidge, told how the flood came to Proctorsville, Vt., shaking that hamlet at night "like a huge, grey monster...
After Mayor Thompson had left Washington, Chairman Reid's committee settled down to consider less spectacular phenomena, such as spillways, crevasses, levees and the main channel of the largest U. S. river. The planning of a national program began with requests for local relief. Representative Hull of Illinois put in a plea for stronger levees around Cairo, at the confluence of the Ohio and the Mississippi. Others from southern Illinois asked that the gooseneck narrows in the Mississippi at Cairo be widened instead...
After Chairman Reid's state had had its say, Louisianians were heard on the desirability of utilizing the Atchafalaya River as a natural spillway, and of building other spillways, to carry the gathered volume of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico by short cuts above New Orleans...
President Coolidge stretched forth his arm to touch the golden lever of the presidential telegraphic instrument. He pressed, and a current of electricity flowed to Manhattan and directly across the Hudson river to Jersey City. At each place, in sight of thousands of crowding spectators, the current caused a pair of great U. S. flags slowly to separate. The Holland Vehicular Tunnel officially became open for inspection...