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Over a grass-covered levee on the banks of the Mississippi at Poydras plantation, twelve miles south of New Orleans, hovered last week a U. S. naval airplane. From the plane dropped three white flags, each six feet square. At this signal came a dull, earth-deadened roar from 48 charges of dynamite, planted in eight rows of holes, six feet apart. Diving through the cloud of smoke that lifted over the levee, the aviator vexed dynamiters by holding his nose in disdain—as a spectacle, the explosion was a "dud." Sturdy, solid, the Poydras...
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