Word: flood-control
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...observation the House was in agreement: NLRB was still without the prospect of strike-vote funds this week. But, rising in wrath, the House restored more than $300 million of the funds its committee had knocked out, including all the veterans' appropriations and all but $6 million of flood-control funds...
...Approved the billion-dollar postwar flood-control bill-after first making it plain that he still wanted separate creation of a Missouri Valley Authority...
...city in the U.S., the words 'The dam has broken' have for generations meant hell and anguish." So cried a citizen of Johnstown, Pa. after the disastrous 1936 flood. Last week Johnstown celebrated the finishing of a flood-control project which the city hopes has freed it from deluge forever...
Territory as large as all of England is included in the watershed of the Tennessee River which has been harnessed as much for the purpose of flood-control as for supplying cheap electricity for a region which has badly needed...
Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art decided last week that the biggest flood-control, navigation and power project of modern times was also art. To prove its point, the Museum put on a show of pictures and models of the vast reclamation project known...