One day last week Secretary of War Patrick Jay Hurley lunched with President Hoover at the White House, hurried out to Boiling Field, climbed into a big Army plane, flew off on an important mission. On one of the longest river junkets ever undertaken by a Secretary of War, he was going to inspect the Mississippi from (navigable) source to delta, from Minneapolis to the Gulf. President Hoover wanted him to find out how the $325,000,000 flood control program was progressing, how navigational improvements along the stream were getting on, what could...
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