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Then, in the late 1920s, after a flood that spread the river 40 miles from its banks, the U.S. Congress made levee construction Washington's responsibility. Billions of tax dollars from elsewhere--probably tens of billions, in modern money--were spent constricting the Mississippi's channel, so its silt began washing straight out to sea and off the continental shelf. By the 1970s, more than half the historic sediment load was coming to a dead stop behind dozens of upriver dams--especially seven monstrous structures erected on the Missouri...
...provides invaluable advice and assistance to aspiring Crimson pugilists, and adds more than a lifetime's worth of boxing experiences that date back to his amateur days in the 1920s...
...glancing at Walter Kirn's "Thanks for Asking" [ESSAY, March 27], my wife was trying to give good-faith answers on the long census questionnaire. What more is needed than to stand up and say "present"? This is what we did when we started school in the 1920s. HARDY AND FRANCES HAY San Diego
...foundation of the Either/Orchestra and the band quickly became known for eccentric material and quirky performances. By the 1980s, most jazz had become neo-conservative and stuffy, but the Either/Orchestra had humor and wit. While Wynton Marsalis was getting started at Lincoln Center and oiling up hits from the 1920s, Gershon and company were playing at a self-proclaimed "Bill Walton" night at a local bar (which Celtics star Bill Walton once actually attended) and soaring through versions of King Crimson tunes and souped-up takes on Ellington and Mingus...
Back in the day when party bosses chose presidential nominees at conventions, Thoughtful Political Observers (TPOS for short) demanded that voters be brought into the process through primaries. Frank R. Kent, one of the more prominent journalists of the 1920s and '30s, made something of a crusade out of this view...