Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... Jacobs , Harry , associate engineer , State of Louisiana Lant , N. E. , bridge engineer , Louisiana Highway Commission_ . Morgan , Louis I. , Covington , La .... Ransdell , Joseph E. , Lake Providence , La Schneider , F. H. , Lake ...
... Jacobs , Harry , associate engineer , State of Louisiana Lant , N. E. , bridge engineer , Louisiana Highway Commission_ . Morgan , Louis I. , Covington , La .... Ransdell , Joseph E. , Lake Providence , La Schneider , F. H. , Lake ...
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... Jacobs , and Mr. Adams have some information they desire to give the committee . We will be glad to hear Mr. Jacobs at this time . STATEMENT OF HARRY JACOBS , ASSOCIATE ENGINEER , STATE BOARD OF ENGINEERS , NEW ORLEANS , LA . Mr. JACOBS ...
... Jacobs , and Mr. Adams have some information they desire to give the committee . We will be glad to hear Mr. Jacobs at this time . STATEMENT OF HARRY JACOBS , ASSOCIATE ENGINEER , STATE BOARD OF ENGINEERS , NEW ORLEANS , LA . Mr. JACOBS ...
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... Jacobs , and Mr. Adams have some information they desire to give the committee . We will be glad to hear Mr. Jacobs at this time . STATEMENT OF HARRY JACOBS , ASSOCIATE ENGINEER , STATE BOARD OF ENGINEERS , NEW ORLEANS , LA . Mr. JACOBS ...
... Jacobs , and Mr. Adams have some information they desire to give the committee . We will be glad to hear Mr. Jacobs at this time . STATEMENT OF HARRY JACOBS , ASSOCIATE ENGINEER , STATE BOARD OF ENGINEERS , NEW ORLEANS , LA . Mr. JACOBS ...
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... JACOBS . If you take the situation in the State of Mississippi ,. below Greenville , you will find that the new concrete highway down there follows the base of the levee ; yet they would have no reim- bursement . The CHAIRMAN . We had ...
... JACOBS . If you take the situation in the State of Mississippi ,. below Greenville , you will find that the new concrete highway down there follows the base of the levee ; yet they would have no reim- bursement . The CHAIRMAN . We had ...
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... Jacobs , if you want to go ahead and discuss it now- Mr. JACOBS ( interposing ) . This information has been prepared for the committee , and I would like to have the opportunity of present- ing it and explaining it when more members of ...
... Jacobs , if you want to go ahead and discuss it now- Mr. JACOBS ( interposing ) . This information has been prepared for the committee , and I would like to have the opportunity of present- ing it and explaining it when more members of ...
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100 percent acres Amount taken Assessed Amounts not paid Arkansas Atchafalaya Basin Levee Bank Basin Levee District Baton Rouge Bayou bill Black River built under Flood CHAIRMAN Charles Church committee construction material_ Contract construction of United contract executed cost of project County district for construction drainage Engineering farm Flood Control Act going Government Gravel Highway Levee Highway Improve inclusive Interest JACOBS James John Joseph Lake Landside toe length levee board Levee Highway Levee levee highway project levees built Louisiana Mary ments actu miles miscellaneous expenses Mississippi River old levee Owner paid by Atchafalaya paid to date Parish PARISH-Continued plantation Point Pontchartrain Levee District Price per ments RICH right-of-way acquired Right-of-way and miscellaneous Square statement supervision surveys Tabulation of right-of-way taken Assessed value Total amount Total assessed Total cost Total taken United States levees value of land WHITTINGTON WOLFE
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Page 206 - District is composed of the parishes of East Carroll, Madison, Tensas, and Concordia.
Page 33 - ENGINEER OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA Mr. JACOBS. Mr. Chairman and members of the committee: The levee boards and the board of State engineers of Louisiana are very much impressed with the statements made here by General Brown and General Ferguson on the development of the problems of flood control and the execution of the adopted plan, insofar as it affects Louisiana, at the recent hearings...
Page 204 - ... accountability, it would transfer the responsibility for the administration of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act from its Board of Directors appointed by the President for that purpose to the General Accounting Office in Washington. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will meet at 3 o'clock this afternoon. (Whereupon the committee recessed until 3 pm of the same day.) AFTER RECESS (The committee reassembled at 3 pm, pursuant to recess.) The CHAIRMAN. The committee will please be in order. I believe...
Page 10 - ... is worthy of your consideration. I am not asking for an increase in the appropriation. It is just a matter of getting the most for the money that you are going to spend. I thank you, gentlemen. Mr. WOODRUM. Thank you, Mr. McClellan. THURSDAY MAY 6, 1937. RELIEF APPROPRIATION Mr. WOODRUM. Mr. Lasser, if you desire to make a statement, we will be very glad to year you at this time. STATEMENT OF DAVID IASSER, REPRESENTING THE WORKERS' ALLIANCE OF AMERICA Mr. LASSER. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen of...