Author: Nathan Clifford GroverPublisher:
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Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Floods of March 1936
Author: Nathan Clifford GroverPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Floods of March 1936 in Pennsylvania
Author: Pennsylvania. Department of Forests and WatersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
History of the Floods of March, 1936 and January, 1937
Author: Pennsylvania RailroadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
This report examines the effects of two major floods on the operations of the Pennsylvania Railroad in 1937 and 1938.
The Evolution of the 1936 Flood Control Act
Author: Joseph L. ArnoldPublisher:
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Category : Flood control
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
Johnstown Flood
Author: David McCulloughPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416561226
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The stunning story of one of America’s great disasters, a preventable tragedy of Gilded Age America, brilliantly told by master historian David McCullough. At the end of the nineteenth century, Johnstown, Pennsylvania, was a booming coal-and-steel town filled with hardworking families striving for a piece of the nation’s burgeoning industrial prosperity. In the mountains above Johnstown, an old earth dam had been hastily rebuilt to create a lake for an exclusive summer resort patronized by the tycoons of that same industrial prosperity, among them Andrew Carnegie, Henry Clay Frick, and Andrew Mellon. Despite repeated warnings of possible danger, nothing was done about the dam. Then came May 31, 1889, when the dam burst, sending a wall of water thundering down the mountain, smashing through Johnstown, and killing more than 2,000 people. It was a tragedy that became a national scandal. Graced by David McCullough’s remarkable gift for writing richly textured, sympathetic social history, The Johnstown Flood is an absorbing, classic portrait of life in nineteenth-century America, of overweening confidence, of energy, and of tragedy. It also offers a powerful historical lesson for our century and all times: the danger of assuming that because people are in positions of responsibility they are necessarily behaving responsibly.
Report of Loss and Damage, March 1936
Author: Norton Lewis LichtenwalnerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
U.S. Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Great Floods of Pennsylvania
Author: William H. ShankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 87
Book Description
The Delaware River Basin
Author: Robert E. HortonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781258571009
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Interstate Commission On The Delaware River Basin, Series C, No. 1, January, 1940.
Author: H. M. Erskine