Hoover speaks on Ohio River improvement and national waterway plan
President Hoover in Louisville celebrates the nine foot Ohio River channel from Pittsburgh to Cairo and outlines a broad plan to modernize Mississippi system, expand nine foot trunks, promote private operation, and link major cities by water from the Gulf to the Great Lakes with ongoing flood control.
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Nation Pledges Rapid Completion Of Great Public Works
The speaker outlines a ten year program to expand harbors and coastal waterways, surpassing Panama Canal scale. He reports reorganizing executive staff, assigning single engineers to major projects, and projecting required annual outlays of about 10 million more, up to 20 million including previous items, with much of the rise aimed at capital investment to boost national commerce and future prosperity.
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Road Improvement Year Near Close Detours Now Few
Iowa highway commission lists detours as road work winds down. Projects include grading paving gravel and earth detours across county lines from Franklin to Black Hawk with temporary routes and bridges.
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