Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seventy percent of the water in the lower Rio Grande originates in Mexico. She could dam up the tributaries, use the water on her own side of the border. But under the pending treaty Mexico agrees to give Texas approximately 800,000 acre-feet of water, keeping only about 600,000 acre-feet for herself...
...thrown around the ancient capital, captured Esztergom, riverside anchor of the Red Army front south of the Danube. They were taking desperate chances, for north of the river the Russians were still rolling westward, an evergrowing menace to the German flank. But German commanders knew that success might dam the Russian tide flowing toward Austria. And Dr. Edmund Veehsenmayer, the Nazi Minister to Hungary, had growled: "We don't care if ten Budapests are destroyed, provided we can save one Vienna...
Stream v. Dam-Burst. Similarly, said Economist Clark, a postwar version of the War Labor Board will be needed to keep a temporary grip on wages, and WPB will have to keep a light touch on raw materials to: 1) make sure that small business is not squeezed out in the first buying rush; 2) prevent a speculative boom such as helped bring on the postwar collapse...
...such evils that they must be done away with in short order. Rather they should see them as tools which, skill fully used, will unstopper the economy so that the forces for full employment, i.e., war-created markets and huge savings, are freed in a steady stream, not one dam-breaking burst...
...Dictator's police tried to dam the tide of underground literature, including "suppressed" articles from U.S. magazines. At last, the Dictator yielded a trifle. His Minister of Justice and Labor, Alexandre Marcondes Filho, told reporters: "Elections are being studied. . . . The process will obey democratic norms...