Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responsibility. Quite as big as the Army's rescue job was its moral responsibility. It has been largely responsible for the spending of some $325,000,000 since the great flood of 1927, to make the valley flood-safe. Already last week criticisms of the Army's work were being heard. Some said that reforestation was more needed than the Army's levees, that reservoirs should have been built to control the floods at their source, on the headwaters of tributaries, instead of trying to deal with the floods after they were underway, that the Army...
...levees an average of three feet from Cairo to the Gulf. But this was not all. The Mississippi, like most great rivers, has carved a channel sufficient to carry its ordinary waters. In flood times, if not artificially restricted, it spreads its waters over most of its alluvial valley. Levees make the floods higher by penning them in, and levees which are made of dirt cannot be built high enough to hold the whole flood in the river channel, for the subsoil would give way under the pressure, if not the levee itself. Hence when big floods occurred the Army...
...never was such a depression in railroad history as the last one. A typical victim was the thoroughly sound Illinois Central. I. C.'s President Lawrence Aloysius Downs once revealed that after the panic of 1907, his road's revenues declined 4%. The drop from peak to valley was only 8% in the depression of the 1890's, only 20% in 1870's, only 24% after the crash of 1857. From 1929 through 1933 Illinois Central's loss in annual revenues was more than 50%, approximately the figure for U. S. railroads as a whole...
...NONE FAIR 0 4 Monadnock Region, N. H. NONE NONE 8 2 North Conway, N. H. GOOD GOOD 4 11 Pinkham Notch, N. H. GOOD GOOD 2 13 Plymouth, N. H. FAIR GOOD 5 9 Stowe. Vt. FAIR GOOD --7 28 Warren, N. H. FAIR GOOD 3 6 Waterville Valley, N. H. GOOD GOOD 9 10 Wolfeboro, N. H. GOOD GOOD 0 6 Wonalancet, N. H. GOOD GOOD...
...business that retailing has ever experienced, are we not headed for serious trouble at the next downward curve of the vicious cycle and would it not be well to remember as the credit sales mount to an ever higher peak that beyond the highest peak there is always a valley?" Not daunted by this notion was Joseph L. Fowler, of Boston's Jordan Marsh, who urged the end of the dunning letters, proposed for delinquent accounts notices that were "mild in tone, neat in appearance, impersonal in nature." An outside suggestion carne from President Frederic Arlington Williams of Cannon...