Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...instance, the names of our streams indicate their character. Rapid River runs through Rapid City. Fall River, originally the River of Falling Water, flows through Hot Springs. Other similarly fast streams have their names preempted by historical events...
...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...
...spillway is a ditch dug alongside and parallel to a river so that when the river overflows the excess water will be taken off by the spillway. The Mississippi and would become a natural spillway to the Atchafalaya Rivers run roughly parallel through Louisiana, so that by establishing a channel between them the Atchafalaya Mississippi...
...canal through Nicaragua, as some propose, will not be needed to supplement the Panama Canal, because: 1) water shortage in the Panama locks, which might threaten if the traffic increases much more, can be averted by building an $8,000,000 dam to store flood waters on the Chagres River; 2) the sea-level canal would be no easier to defend in war-time than the Panama locks since the narrow sea-level channel could be blocked by one sunken ship. "Routine business" over, many of the engineers left Denver for Colorado Springs and recreation. Others traveled west instead...
...German conqueror of the English Channel, William Albert Ericson (the Bronx), Mrs. Lottie Moore Schoemmel (the Bronx swimming teacher), Lucy A. F. Dimond (Brooklyn), Paul Chotteau (Manhattan) and Edward F. Keating (Manhattan). This last is a 24-year-old who learned to swim near a pier in the East River. Unlike the others above listed, he was not considered a prominent contender. He lacked the fatty layers that blanket lean muscles against numbing water. . . . One by one they dropped out of the race. Paul Chotteau, after 26 hours, gave up six miles from the finish. The German Vierkoetter surrendered after...