Set-back Levees on the Mississippi River: Hearings... on H.R. 7349...1935 - 226 pages |
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... Committee on Flood Control. SET - BACK LEVEES ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY - FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 7349 STANFORD LIBRARIES TO AMEND THE ACT ...
... Committee on Flood Control. SET - BACK LEVEES ON THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEVENTY - FOURTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON H. R. 7349 STANFORD LIBRARIES TO AMEND THE ACT ...
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... Committee on Flood Control. COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL RILEY J. WILSON , Louisiana , Chairman BERNARD J. GEHRMANN , Wisconsin BYRON B. CANN , Clerk Statement of- CONTENTS Adams , J. R. , assistant engineer. GROHMATS 231ЯARBU WILL M ...
... Committee on Flood Control. COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL RILEY J. WILSON , Louisiana , Chairman BERNARD J. GEHRMANN , Wisconsin BYRON B. CANN , Clerk Statement of- CONTENTS Adams , J. R. , assistant engineer. GROHMATS 231ЯARBU WILL M ...
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... Committee on Flood Control. Statement of- CONTENTS Adams , J. R. , assistant engineer , State of Louisiana .. Bland , Geo . D. , Point Pleasant , La .. Driver , Hon . William J. , Representative in Congress from Arkansas_ Jacobs , Harry ...
... Committee on Flood Control. Statement of- CONTENTS Adams , J. R. , assistant engineer , State of Louisiana .. Bland , Geo . D. , Point Pleasant , La .. Driver , Hon . William J. , Representative in Congress from Arkansas_ Jacobs , Harry ...
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... COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL , Washington , D. C. The committee met at 10:30 a . m . , Hon . Riley J. , Wilson ( chair- man ) presiding . The CHAIRMAN . The committee will come to order . We have for consideration this morning H. R. 7349 ...
... COMMITTEE ON FLOOD CONTROL , Washington , D. C. The committee met at 10:30 a . m . , Hon . Riley J. , Wilson ( chair- man ) presiding . The CHAIRMAN . The committee will come to order . We have for consideration this morning H. R. 7349 ...
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... Committee on Flood Control. This is a matter that has been pending before our committee for some time . Bills providing for the relief sought in this measure have been on two occasions , after hearings , reported favorably by this committee ...
... Committee on Flood Control. This is a matter that has been pending before our committee for some time . Bills providing for the relief sought in this measure have been on two occasions , after hearings , reported favorably by this committee ...
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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...