Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...signed remained the Muscle Shoals Bill, to put the U. S. in the nitrate and power business with its Wartime plant on the Tennessee River in Alabama. A "pocket veto" was urged, feared, hoped, predicted for this measure which the Congress took a decade to pass...
City. Where the Kaw River empties into the Missouri and the Missouri starts an eastern sweep to get on over and join the Mississippi, is the bottom of a great basin and a natural site for human habitation. They say you could give a freight car a shove anywhere within 300 miles of where the rivers meet (except eastward) and it would coast down to the Kansas Cities. Of these there are two. a small one in Kansas, a larger one (383,100 population) across the Kaw in Missouri. They are "the gates to the Southwest," "the continent...
Whether or not it is ever built to dam water, the proposed 675-ft. Federal power and irrigation dam in the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River has already backed up an enormous supply of attention, irrigated the U. S. with rushing streams of propaganda and oratory, generated powerful currents of controversy. The purposes for which the actual dam is proposed...
...facts, that only 2½% of the Colorado basin lies in California; that practically no California water drains into the river; whereas about 42% of the basin is in Arizona, whose streams furnish 28% of the river's flow at Boulder Canyon. Reflecting these facts in the provisions of the bill in such a manner as to satisfy Arizona has to date proved impossible...
...Kansas, the number of farmers pre paring to motor through their State and across the Kaw River to the convention was estimated by a Topeka observer...