Word: valleyed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onlookers stood helpless on the bank. The Norfolk & Western abandoned service when floods east of the city washed out the right of way at Clear Creek, near the Little Miami River. Other lines were soon out of commission because the fine new Union Station is in old Mill Creek Valley and tracks were deeply submerged. An even greater danger threatened the waterfront when oil tanks in Mill Creek Valley tore loose from their foundations, began floating around and slopping their fluid on the rising waters...
...hour and the rain still falling, Governor Albert Benjamin ("Happy'') Chandler telephoned President Roosevelt that the emergency had reached such proportions that Federal troops were needed. For stricken Louisville he declared martial law. The whole nation was given front row seats at the Ohio valley's tragedy through Louisville radio station WHAS...
...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 that Congressman Griswold and the rest of the Ohio River Valley would soon learn what Southerners learned in 1927: that the best means of getting Federal flood control money is to have a good flood...
...which billowed smoke to protect the trees from frost. Before morning, temperatures in many places had fallen through the 18° mark set by the 1922 freeze which ruined half the citrus crop. A temperature of 16° was reported near Los Angeles, of 12° in the Imperial Valley. Los Angeles awoke under a pall of smoke from millions of smudges. It was so dark that lights were burned till afternoon. San Diego had its first snowfall in history (the Government meteorologist described it as "soft hail"). A second night of low temperatures followed. Traffic crawled and tangled...
When his favorite dog, Snowball, died in 1929, George H. Slappey of Fort Valley, Ga. summoned his friends from far & wide for the Spitz's funeral. Four years later, still grieving, he sat down and wrote a will setting aside the residue of his estate after bequests to relatives for a "Snowball Dog Hospital'' in Macon. Friends tried to persuade him to make it a children's hospital instead, but Dog-lover Slappey said: ''There's always someone who will take care of children. Nobody takes care of sick and injured dogs unless...