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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...property in an area of 20,000 sq. mi. With the water 8 ft. above flood stage at Pittsburgh, 10 at Wheeling, 21 at Cincinnati at week's end (see map), the still-rising 1937 flood had already taken more lives than the 1936 inundation of the upper Ohio and Susquehanna slopes. For size and damage it was a far greater national disaster. In the lower Ohio Valley there never had been such a flood. The reason for last year's flood was that the winter was too cold. The snow stayed on the ground too deep...
...said this Democratic member of the House Flood Control Committee, "that Congressmen from the South have been less interested in Mississippi flood control as a problem than in having flood control funds spent in their own section. I argued for six years for flood control on the upper streams that feed the Ohio and drain into the Mississippi before we finally got it into a bill which passed last session." Unfortunately, the bill to which Congressman Griswold referred was the $320,000,000 Omnibus Flood Control bill for which Congress failed to vote an appropriation. Last week chances were strong...
...York City betters are mulcted of some $50,000,000 per year (TIME, Jan. 4), was once a Dutch Schultz monopoly. It passed on his death to Luciano and has since been divided among several large rings, hundreds of small independent "bankers." Setting up temporary headquarters one evening^ in upper Riverside Drive's historic, city-owned Claremont Inn, now closed for the winter, Mr. Dewey sent 70 detectives swarming over Harlem after the city's biggest known policy ring, run by two West Indian Negroes named Pompeii and Ison. Bankers, slip girls, runners, collectors were carted...
...years ago, the Cambridge crew rowed proudly onto the Thames with the third lightest coxswain in Boat Race history-97-lb. J. M. Ranking. Hart Massey, 19, a graduate of Upper Canada College in Toronto, now in his first year at Balliol, is less than 4 ft. tall, weighs 56 Ib. Using Coxswain Massey would give Oxford at least 50 Ib. weight advantage. It would also mean building a shell specially weighted in the stern. If Coxswain Massey were suddenly unavailable on Boat Race Day, only alternatives would be i) using a shell other than the one the crew...
Last week Washington saw Vol. I, No. 1 of a new newspaper called the Capitol Daily. In clear and careful detail, the tabloid-size sheet told of legislative doings in the upper & lower Houses of Congress. "What the Senate Did Yesterday" and ''What the House Did Yesterday," were boxed heads on Page One. Inside the Capitol Daily, proposed legislation was tabulated, smaller Congressional stories ran under one-column heads...