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Title: Correction
Description: Correction to the April 26, 1952, article by Richard G. Baumhoff in The Nation magazine, notably the editing mistake about the author's comments on the part of the Missouri River valley affected by the 1951 flood and the governmental needs of the area.
Date: 1952-06
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Perspective: Domesticating Big Mo
Description: Editorial essay about the need for cooperation of flood control agencies by the federal and local levels of government in order to prevent repeated disasters like the 1951 flood for area cities, buildings, and agriculture.
Date: 1953-04-16
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Misery on the Missouri
Description: Article about the frequent recent flooding of the Missouri River with a table showing the chronology of its 10 floods in the 10 years from 1943 to 1952 and resulting damages. Related information on the proposed Missouri Valley Authority and Pick-Sloan Plan and President Harry Truman's opposition to them, etc.
Date: 1952-04-28
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Dam the Missouri Floods!
Description: Brief article about the proposed engineering project on the Missouri River to be regulated by its own comprehensive federal agency, covering flood control, electrical energy, soil conservation, navigation, and irrigation, with map.
Date: 1952-04-26
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: The Wild Missouri: The Great River Is a Moody, Violent Source of Despair--and Hope
Description: Extensive article about the history of flood control efforts on the Missouri River and its huge drainage basin, an area "one sixth of [the] total area of [the] continental U. S.," with maps, illustrations, photos. Gives descriptions of disasters from the 1930s droughts and the 1951 flood.
Date: 1950-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: A Plan to Meet Disaster
Description: Article regarding the necessity of trained workers for employment in flood control and relief work over untrained volunteers.
Date: 1952-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Pick Raises Kaw Flood Damage Estimate to $990 Million; Called Conservative
Description: Photos and text about the unprecedented damage and prices for repairing and adding flood prevention measures.
Date: 1951-08-02
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Flood Waters Roll into History as New Marks Are Set, Controls Talk Revives
Description: Description with numerous photos of the flood, accompanied by engineering plans to prevent a similar reoccurrence.
Date: 1951-07-26
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Water Resources Development by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers in Missouri
Description: Description of the flood control projects in the Kansas City area, especially concerning the West Bottoms area after the 1951 flood.
Date: 1965
Object Type: Report

Title: In the Wake of the Floods
Description: Article about the flood control projects of the Pick-Sloan plan, a federal program set up before the 1951 flood but not built in time to prevent disasters caused along the Kansas and Missouri Rivers in 1951, with photos.
Date: 1951-10
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: How to Stop Floods: Answers from General Pick, Top Man for River Control
Description: Interview of "General Lewis Pick, Chief of the Army's Corps of Engineers and coauthor of the Pick-Sloan Plan for harnessing the Missouri" River, with his answers on how to stop the floods of the Missouri River Basin, highlighting the 1951 flood, with photos and large illustrated map.
Date: 1952-04-25
Object Type: Magazine Article