Word: silts
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...lost their craft or goods had pleaded with Congress to do something about the driftwood menace. The bewildered statesmen could offer no help. It was considered impossible to dislodge the enormous timbers: trees whose roots had dug deep into the stream bottom . . . were packed down with tons of silt. ..." Shreve disagreed. He had invented a "heavy-timbered, twin-hulled snag boat" to do the job. He wrote the War Department, offering to submit a model. The War Department "did not trouble to reply...