Flood Control: Hearings Before the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventieth Congress, First Session, Relative to Flood Control of the Mississippi River. January 23 to February 24, 1928. Printed for Use of the Committee on CommerceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1928 - 693 psl. |
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... reason it can not be done , when nature is cooperated with and her great provisions to that end are embraced . To this end , the first step is a great master dam across the Missouri River just below the junction of the Little Missouri ...
... reason it can not be done , when nature is cooperated with and her great provisions to that end are embraced . To this end , the first step is a great master dam across the Missouri River just below the junction of the Little Missouri ...
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... reason why railroads with freight depots and proper delivery upon the top of that bank , should have killed local water transportation on the Mississippi as it exists to - day , irrespective of the other almost insurmountable ...
... reason why railroads with freight depots and proper delivery upon the top of that bank , should have killed local water transportation on the Mississippi as it exists to - day , irrespective of the other almost insurmountable ...
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... reason I asked that is that I have just spent a week up against the gun with differences of opinion in the States , in the question of Colorado . Senator HAWES . I would not like to submit the figures to you . The Ohio River enters the ...
... reason I asked that is that I have just spent a week up against the gun with differences of opinion in the States , in the question of Colorado . Senator HAWES . I would not like to submit the figures to you . The Ohio River enters the ...
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... reason , Mr. Chairman , why we ought not to contribute to it . Senator HAWES . I want to answer in another way . Forget about the long period when this property was acquired . The great ex- pense of spillways , and work of that kind ...
... reason , Mr. Chairman , why we ought not to contribute to it . Senator HAWES . I want to answer in another way . Forget about the long period when this property was acquired . The great ex- pense of spillways , and work of that kind ...
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... reason I made the suggestion which I did make a little while ago . Of course we can pay it out of the Federal Treasury . If we do , of course , we will have to curtail the amount that we appropriate for rivers and harbors and similar ...
... reason I made the suggestion which I did make a little while ago . Of course we can pay it out of the Federal Treasury . If we do , of course , we will have to curtail the amount that we appropriate for rivers and harbors and similar ...
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