Word: controls
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Reparations Commission has been alarmed to learn that the Reichstag plans for next year a series of great industrial expenditures. Although the large profits of the new German rail-road system under governmental control have been instrumental in the payment on time of the war debts of 1925, 1926, and 1927, the Allies, as represented in the Reparations Commission are trying to discourage any additional investments by the Republic. The annual payments for the first four years increased only from 250,000,000 to 500,000,000 marks, while the payment for the fifth year and all subsequent years...
Senator Elmer Thomas of Okla homa set forth that his state had suffered more property damage than any other from floods; that levee construction would scarcely affect Oklahoma; that the way to start controlling the Mississippi was by impounding its tributaries in reservoirs; that reservoirs affected agriculture and waterpower and should therefore not be a wholly Federal project. Senator Thomas proposed a Federal fund of ten millions, to be administered by the President in national disasters, and gave the Flood Control Committee a bill he had drawn to this effect...
While the Representatives were meeting, Senator Harry Bartow Hawes, Missouri Democrat, was busy enlisting the support of colleagues in both parties for a Missouri Plan of flood control. This plan provided for: a) five commissioners appointed by the President to govern flood control, navigation and conservation in the Mississippi Basin; b) appropriations of $100,000,000 per annum for ten years; c) a bond issue, such as built the Panama Canal and the Alaska Railway...
Unofficialdom said that Army's flood control report would recommend: 1) Standard levees from above Cairo, Ill., to the Mississippi mouth, 12 feet wide (instead of 8, as now) and higher than ever; 2) Illuminated national highways atop these levees; 3) Spillways at Poydras, La.; and down the Atchafalaya Basin; 4) Lateral levee control of large Mississippi tributaries; 5) No reforestation; 6) Costs...
Industry. Although a vast amount of capital has been expended on Russian industry by the government, it remains the most serious problem that the Soviet is facing. The basic reason for this is that, with its bureaucratic control, its restricted markets, and its general inefficiency, Russian industry is not able to turn out goods cheap enough to appeal to the peasantry, its logical customer...