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 Commerce |
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... Present : Senators Jones ( chairman ) , McNary , Willis , Johnson , Gould , Sackett , Nye , Cutting , Fletcher , Ransdell , Simmons , Stephens , Harris , Hawes , and Tyson . ( The committee had under consideration the following Senate ...
... Present : Senators Jones ( chairman ) , McNary , Willis , Johnson , Gould , Sackett , Nye , Cutting , Fletcher , Ransdell , Simmons , Stephens , Harris , Hawes , and Tyson . ( The committee had under consideration the following Senate ...
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... present methods ; but by the construction of a great master dam across this river in North Dakota , where nature has provided a site for it and for a great reservoir , its flood control , navigation , and power production become not ...
... present methods ; but by the construction of a great master dam across this river in North Dakota , where nature has provided a site for it and for a great reservoir , its flood control , navigation , and power production become not ...
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... present river level ; the slope of its bank will be about one to seven on both faces of the dam . This dam will eliminate any provision for an overflow , which is the most dangerous feature in an earth dam , and , instead , an underflow ...
... present river level ; the slope of its bank will be about one to seven on both faces of the dam . This dam will eliminate any provision for an overflow , which is the most dangerous feature in an earth dam , and , instead , an underflow ...
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... present river bottom for a width of about seven hundred feet , and straightened by the same pumping dredge that had made the master dam . This depth would gradually decrease , until at a few miles below Bismarck it would meet the ...
... present river bottom for a width of about seven hundred feet , and straightened by the same pumping dredge that had made the master dam . This depth would gradually decrease , until at a few miles below Bismarck it would meet the ...
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... present rainfall somewhere in those States or in those that surround it to the west and south , " [ H. R. 18169 , Sixty - third Congress , second session . In the House of Representatives , July 31 , 1914 , Mr. Griffin introduced the ...
... present rainfall somewhere in those States or in those that surround it to the west and south , " [ H. R. 18169 , Sixty - third Congress , second session . In the House of Representatives , July 31 , 1914 , Mr. Griffin introduced the ...
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Page 510 - It shall be the duty of said commission to take into consideration and mature such plan or plans and estimates as will correct, permanently locate, and deepen the channel and protect the banks of the Mississippi River ; improve and give safety and ease to the navigation thereof; prevent destructive floods; promote and facilitate commerce, trade, and the postal service...
Page 11 - ... exempt from the payment of all taxes or duties of the United States, as well as from taxation in any form by or under state, municipal, or local authority...
Page 1 - If any provision of this Act or the application of such provision to any person or circumstances shall be held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the Act and the applicability of such provision to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 6 - Two of the members in office shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of the business of the Board.
Page 6 - Act of 1923,' fix the salaries of such experts, assistants, officers, and employees; and (3) make such expenditures (including expenditures for rent and personal services at the seat of government and elsewhere, for law books, periodicals, and books of reference, and for printing and binding...
Page 6 - The board— (1) shall maintain its principal office in the District of Columbia, and such other offices in the United States as in its judgment are necessary. (2) shall have an official seal which shall be judicially noticed. (3) shall make an annual report to Congress upon the administration of this Act and any other matter relating to the better effectuation of the policy declared in section 1, including recommendations for legislation.
Page 3 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following work of improvement is hereby adopted and authorized, to be prosecuted under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers...
Page 512 - I do not know that there is anything more that I can say about the differences.