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...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 the Atchafalaya River which is almost a natural spillway and can readily be adapted to the purpose); and the possible construction of an additional spillway north from the Atchafalaya to the Arkansas River. "There is no question," said Mr. Hoover, "that the Mississippi River can be controlled...
...Spillways. The most promising and most seriously considered flood-control method is the spillway. The Atchafalaya River is a good example of a natural spillway. It flows, roughly speaking, parallel to the Mississippi through Louisiana. By building strong levees all along its length to the Gulf it could be turned into a kind of trough which would draw off water from the Mississippi itself. In the present flood the Atchafalaya did, in a way, perform exactly this function; unfortunately, however, it received altogether too much water so that the later stages of the flood were along the Atchafalaya, not along...
...first declared that he supported the bill of his colleague, Mr. Underwood. Then, with a gesture of his great arm, he opened the floodgates of his eloquence. All the dammed up speech of ten silent days burst forth, inundated the chamber. For two hours it flowed over the spillway of his golden tongue; when it ceased, his hearers shook their heads: "Ah, yes, there's nothing the matter with the Senate after...
...Miraflores locks are in ruins, the Gatun spillways are broken, Gatun Lake is drained, the Panama Canal is dry land once more, our fleet is divided and our Pacific Coast is at the mercy of the " Black" Navy. These are the hypothetical results of the battle maneuvers of our fleet in the Pacific. The United Stales fleet under command of Admiral Jones put the Canal defenses to the most severe test possible and discovered weakness. The story of the attack was this: The fleet divided into a "Blue" fleet defending the canal and a "Black" or "enemy" fleet attacking...