Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From Baltimore, Md., came news that the Religious Society of Friends were alarmed over "vice conditions . . . widespread disease and moral degradation," to which they had heard U. S. sailors were exposed on the Yangtse Kiang (river), China. President Coolidge and Secretary of the Navy Wilbur were asked to investigate...
...night, and all the next day and night rain fell on the little mountains of western New England. It ran down the mountains in rivulets, into the brooks and small rivers, into the big Connecticut River, which is the boundary of Vermont and New Hampshire; into the Merrimac in New Hampshire; into the Hoosick River, which drops to the Hudson out of Vermont and Massachusetts; into Otter Creek, which flows northwest into Lake Champlain; into the Winooski, which tumbles through the Green Mountains for 60 miles...
Maine was the only New England state to escape. The milk supply of Boston and all westward mail and freight service were almost entirely cut off. Damage rode on the raging Connecticut River down through Springfield, Mass., and Hartford, Conn. Oil tanks and wharves collapsed. Sewers backed up. Typhoid threatened. Tens of thousands were homeless. A fall of snow increased their misery. The total damage for New England was estimated at $50,000,000. More than 150 died...
...royal son the sovereign has proved unpopular, even in the comparatively fat role of arch-villain. And there was racing and chasing behind the scenes until they found the very sets to be rushed on and save the reputation of the house--the big flood scenes of the Mississippi River. Human interest, gripping incidents and, looking east'ard to the sea, timeliness...
...Conquest of the River Plate," Professor Haring, Harvard...