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...Toll. Omaha and Council Bluffs were saved from devastation. Downstream lay other cities girded for the flood. The Missouri's crest would continue to inflict damage on the countryside, where farmers' "private" levees could not withstand it. The Army's Chief of Engineers, Lieut. General Lewis Pick, summarized the toll exacted by the Mighty Muddy as its flood passed down river from Omaha: 27 railroads blocked, 83 main highways broken, 87,000 persons displaced, 50 cities & towns flooded, 2,000,000 farm acres swamped, 153 private levees breached-a total of $200 million damage, which would...
...worked feverishly to strengthen flood walls, assisted by thousands of Army troops, National Guardsmen and Army Engineers. A two-foot "flashboard" was being added to the 31½-ft. levee and flood wall at Omaha. But its value was as much psychological as physical. Few expected the levee to withstand the pressure of a predicted 31½-ft. flood crest. After inspecting the inadequate dikes and flood walls, Brigadier General Don G. Shingler, Missouri River Division Engineer, remarked gloomily: "The Missouri is coming with a rip and a roar. We're in a hell of a lot of trouble...
...some sketches and took them to the AEC laboratories at Los Alamos. Working in high secrecy, West Pointer del Campo spent months juggling the requirements of artillery against the requirements of an atomic charge. (Sample: the mechanical parts of an atomic bomb need only be strong enough to withstand the bumps of turbulent air; the mechanical parts of an atomic shell must be 4,000 times as strong to stand up under the explosion when the gun is fired.) One day Del Campo telephoned his Pentagon bosses: "I've just returned from Los Alamos and the light is green...
...whole assembly weighs about 75 tons, but it is still light enough to cross a division bridge (i.e., a bridge built to withstand any standard piece of equipment in an Army division). On the highway it can travel about 35 m.p.h. It can cross rough country and ford streams five feet deep. The gun assembly has a traveling range of 250 miles. And it can fit comfortably behind the clamshell doors of a Navy landing ship...
...proved a great problem. The best answer so far is the basement of the House Squash Courts building, the stucco excrescence surrounded by Kirkland, Lowell, Eliot, and the IAB. There is sufficient room there for a ten or twelve place range, and the concrete walls are strong enough to withstand a 22 bullet...