Flood Control in the Lower Mississippi Valley: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Commerce, United States Senate, Seventy-fourth Congress, Second Session, on S. 3531, a Bill to Amend the Act Entitled "An Act for the Control of Floods on the Mississippi River and Its Tributaries and for Other Purposes", Approved May 15, 1928, January 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1936 |
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... suggested , the local interests be required to pay one - third of the cost of the construction , it will be impossible in my judgment for them to do that and therefore the project would fail . Their ability to contribute has been ...
... suggested , the local interests be required to pay one - third of the cost of the construction , it will be impossible in my judgment for them to do that and therefore the project would fail . Their ability to contribute has been ...
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... suggested certain modifications to be made in respect to the original Jadwin plan . Senator SHEPPARD . We shall have ... suggest that they be reprinted in these hearings . Senator SHEPPARD . Made a part by reference ? Senator OVERTON ...
... suggested certain modifications to be made in respect to the original Jadwin plan . Senator SHEPPARD . We shall have ... suggest that they be reprinted in these hearings . Senator SHEPPARD . Made a part by reference ? Senator OVERTON ...
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... suggesting certain modifications to the adopted plan - that report being dated February 12 , 1935. Those engineering features suggested by General Markham , in modification of the plan , are briefly as follows— Senator SHEPPARD . You ...
... suggesting certain modifications to the adopted plan - that report being dated February 12 , 1935. Those engineering features suggested by General Markham , in modification of the plan , are briefly as follows— Senator SHEPPARD . You ...
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... suggested , Mr. Chairman , by the Chief of Engineers , that the local levee boards or other agencies of the States , or perhaps the States , should un- dertake to acquire these flowage rights , and pay for them , with a discretionary ...
... suggested , Mr. Chairman , by the Chief of Engineers , that the local levee boards or other agencies of the States , or perhaps the States , should un- dertake to acquire these flowage rights , and pay for them , with a discretionary ...
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... suggested by section 12 for the payment of flowage rights a just rule and a fair rule and a constitutional rule , but it is also a very practical rule . I do not think , Mr. Chairman , that we can improve on the language of the Federal ...
... suggested by section 12 for the payment of flowage rights a just rule and a fair rule and a constitutional rule , but it is also a very practical rule . I do not think , Mr. Chairman , that we can improve on the language of the Federal ...
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