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In an approximate estimate given by Gen. Lytle Brown , the Chief of Engineers , it would be about $ 4,000,000 , and the figure is still around that amount . Every agency of the Government , National and State , has acknowl- edged and ...
In an approximate estimate given by Gen. Lytle Brown , the Chief of Engineers , it would be about $ 4,000,000 , and the figure is still around that amount . Every agency of the Government , National and State , has acknowl- edged and ...
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The cost is not great , even it if should be 6 or 7 million dollars . ... which have cost the farmers and landowners large amounts of money because of the loss of their property , the Government has saved many mil- lions of dollars .
The cost is not great , even it if should be 6 or 7 million dollars . ... which have cost the farmers and landowners large amounts of money because of the loss of their property , the Government has saved many mil- lions of dollars .
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Under the act , I do not see how there is any legal construction to the effect that the local interests should pay for it . They have had to pay for the levee foundations , and since the passage of the act they have spent $ 41,000,000 ...
Under the act , I do not see how there is any legal construction to the effect that the local interests should pay for it . They have had to pay for the levee foundations , and since the passage of the act they have spent $ 41,000,000 ...
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In other words , if it was placed squarely before them as a business proposition as to whether or not you would make the cut - off and pay the compensation to the landowner , it would amount to less than half the amount of money that ...
In other words , if it was placed squarely before them as a business proposition as to whether or not you would make the cut - off and pay the compensation to the landowner , it would amount to less than half the amount of money that ...
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... instead of being required to obligate itself for $ 68,796 , the amount given us by the Chief of Engineers ... of the Flood Control Act of 1928 , and will not require any additional authorization or appropriation , but will pay ...
... instead of being required to obligate itself for $ 68,796 , the amount given us by the Chief of Engineers ... of the Flood Control Act of 1928 , and will not require any additional authorization or appropriation , but will pay ...
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| Title | Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349... |
| Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Flood Control |
| Published | 1935 |
| Length | 226 pages |
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