Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Last Amendment." Patiently, as the day wore on, Douglas tried to knock out $200 million for flood control on the lower Mississippi River, $100 million of projects in the Ohio River Basin, $89 million for the Arkansas River Basin. Except for Delaware's John Williams and Virginia's inveterate economizer, Harry Byrd, he had almost no support. Most of his colleagues sat, exasperated...
...Rochester Scientists decided, was the final stroke in a pattern of "increasingly despotic control" from Boston. By week's end the directors of the Mother Church had not made a formal statement on the split. But the Rochester dissenters happily announced that they had already received a flood of approving mail from Christian Scientists all over...
...dredging and flood control projects that the government undertakes are given over to the Army Engineers, responsible directly to Congress. The Engineers hire sub-contractors and bear the entire cost of projects from the tidy appropriation. Even if the improvement helps only one individual or company, the Government still has to pay the bill. This is the one way Congress has of letting the people back home know that the legislators are looking after their interests...
Reporters for the State Department's Voice of America have long been barred from Senate and House press galleries; Washington newsmen feared that admitting the Voice would open the dikes to a flood of other "Government propagandists" (TIME, Feb. 27). But friends of the Voice pointed out that either its reporters needed seats to cover the news, or the U.S. didn't need the Voice. Last week a compromise was worked out : Voice Reporters Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty were admitted to the periodicals (magazine) galleries on an unofficial basis...
Theoretically, these radio amateurs can be of vital importance in times of emergency. Although the chances are small that they might have to supplement regular communications channels--almost an annual chore for midwestern hams in flood areas--they can be of assistance in relaying messages from other disaster areas to relatives and rescue workers...