Chronology of the District's work and shows how both successes and failures well served the early engineers in the development of sound engineering techniques

The river, the nation and the Corps -- The engineers take hold -- Progress and paucity -- The crisis -- the flood of 1927 -- Jadwin : the man and the plan -- Dredging, elevating, and cut-offs -- The test: the flood of 1937 -- A two-front war: 1937-1945 -- The old war, the cold war, and the river: 1946-1959 -- Rolling on: 1960-1975 -- District engineers: 1882-1986.