Word: basin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Missouri Basin Blues...
Supporters of both the Army-Reclamation Bureau project and the MVA have been fighting it out ever since 1944. In August of that year, when Senator James Murray of Montana introduced a bill to set up an MVA, governors in eight of the nine Missouri Basin states came out cautiously for Army flood control proposals and the Reclamation Bureau's plans for irrigation development. In November, the Army and the Reclamation Bureau (headed by Major General Lewis Pick and W. G. Sloan) joined forces in a compromise; Senator Murray promptly accused them of hastening their agreement just to thwart...
...three dinghy fleet, directed by Commodore Pete Putnam, will skud the white water against Yale in the M.I.T. basin today in the semi-annual Crimson-Eli regatta. Pete Duble ard Charles MacElory will captain the other two crafts for Harvard...
Critics struggled for just the right words. One thought that Lionel Barrymore's etchings (Purdy's Basin and San Pedro) had a "professional touch." The gallery director felt obliged to say that Cinemoppet Margaret O'Brien "has definite promise. . . . There's an oriental simplicity about her watercolor, Autumn Leaves, which many artists work for years to capture." One critic summed up: "I hate to hurt their feelings, but almost all of the work ... is fairly...
West Virginia's New River rose 30 feet above its normal level, swept scores of houses and other buildings into the Bluestone Dam basin. At Clarksburg, W.Va., the West Fork River rose to its highest stage since 1888. A 10-ft. levee collapsed at Crowder, Miss. The raging Duck River split the town of Columbia, Tenn. in half; Columbians were evacuated from their homes by the Red Cross and the National Guard...