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which resulted in the flooding of the wealthy Fairfax industrial area, containing major industries such as General Motors, a Phillips Petroleum refinery with many huge storage tanks — and the flood water around them covered with an oil slick.
NEXT, the Kansas City, Kansas, water and light plant — saved by heroic effort. Thousands of box and tank cars off the rails — lying in crazy design. Then we went east with the Missouri River.
North Kansas City was dry. Mayor Cheek had withdrawn his evacuation orders and permitted the citizens to return to their homes and jobs.
The Milwaukee Railroad Bridge, recently purchased by Kansas City, Missouri, to be used for another highway development crossing the Missouri River, seemed unharmed and free of debris — although much trash and debris was all along the surface of the river.
The Sugar Creek Refinery (Standard Oil) on the south side of the river was unharmed.
At Liberty Bend cut-off — which was created a few years ago to straighten the river channel and create a large recreational lake — I could see that the "Mighty Mo" — the mad woman — went back to her old habits — back into the old channel, tearing out a full section of the new Highway No. 71 Bridge in her mad fit of destruction. Part of U. S. Highway No. 71 at Liberty Bend is under water. There is unbelievable destruction. A section of the highway approach to the bridge — maybe a hundred yards long — has been washed away, as it meets the bridge from the north side.
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Wa flew at a height of 1,000 t 1,500 feet and could have an excel' lent chance to observe.
Today the water is still lower th; yesterday on both the Mo and Kaw, and we can only hope the fal will continue.
As I began the flight and saw th; effects of the two uncontrolled rivetf I was sick at heart for those wh were homeless. And I felt helpless t give aid to those who had suffere such huge financial loss. I saw ir surmountable difficulties ahead first.
But finally I realized I also sa\ more than a billion dollars of recor struction work ahead of us, neede to recondition our great industri; community. I could start to fei again the strength of men when face with disaster. Their courage growstheir determination is unlimited.
And I knew that Kansas City an its ruined neighbors would soon I at the task of rebuilding — creating greater industrial facility than v have heretofore known; but no doul with more — yes, much more! — assu ance that this flood situation cann( repeat itself, ever again, if data ar history can guide men to fashic stem controls for the now uncoi trolled rivers.
What all mankind needs — wat. . . what all mankind knows 1 cannot live without — water . . we have learned we cannot live wi\ in this form. Vicious and uncoj trolled!
You can be sure that the "Migh Mo" and the "Kantankerous Kav will be properly controlled — ai surely the start cannot be delay* further.
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