Word: sloughs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...flood, is rewarded with a nice farm in the hills. But come summer, the Pennys start complaining- even the clock "ain't been ticking natural" -and sneak back happily to the storms, floods, fever, gyp salesmen, rousing revival meetings, fighting and good catfishing at Beaver Slough...
...perched on an island in the Mississippi River, which divides Illinois from Missouri. Kaskaskia had lost its chief distinction long before 1881, when the meandering Mississippi changed its channel from the west of Kaskaskia Island to the east, washing away part of the town and leaving a willowy, uninhabited slough which now stretches west between Kaskaskia's 107 inhabitants and the old Missouri shore. Kaskaskia proper still belongs to Illinois. Whether the slough, known as Kaskaskia Commons, belongs to Illinois or Missouri is a question which neither State has troubled to settle, but which last week came...
...blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres of rich Greene County were flooded. Army Engineers tried to save the St. Francis River levees in Missouri, but in the face of rising water or- dered their 1,500 workers and their families to flee for their lives. At Blytheville, Ark. guards...
Those in the Yard who failed to pass the recent tests should not fall into the slough of despond, for the statistics indicate that most of those who fall by the wayside in November eventually get back into good standing, while the real mortality rate begins to show in February. Meanwhile it is not too much to ask that the University take heed to the age long plea for an effective adviser system in order to shift the onus of talking to every erring Freshman from the shoulders of the deans...
Meantime, in its ponderous ascent from Depression's slough, U. S. Steel Corp. reported profits of $16,233,000 for the first six months of 1936, about three-fourths of which was earned in the June quarter. From 1931 through July 1936 the Steel Corporation paid out nearly $175,000,000 more than it took in, even though no dividends were declared on the common stock and the preferred dividend was pared from $7 to $2 per share. In the June quarter this year the preferred dividend was fully earned, with enough left over to show earnings...