Word: dikes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lighthearted about the efforts to save thousands of acres of the rich Fenlands of Norfolk and East Anglia, Britain's main vegetable bin and a major breadbasket. There 3,000 soldiers, hundreds of German prisoners and scores of farmers worked desperately all week to bolster a seven-foot dike and to plug a break in the Ouse River's banks...
...Plain of China can be made a perfectly safe place in which to dwell and carry on agricultural pursuits." To prove it he was working 16 hours a day, seven days a week. An impassioned man in a blue shirt, he now rides daily back & forth along the bumpy dike tops, directing the work with his expressive hands (he speaks Chinese indifferently...
...flood tide of Europe's social unrest was lapping over into The Nether lands. But Queen Wilhelmina had her finger in the dike. Her new Government for a country radically changed as a result of war and German occupation was not yet completed. But into it she had invited two leaders of the new political forces -Willem Schermerhorn, former Resistance leader, who had had time to dream up new ideas for The Netherlands while he was a Nazi prisoner, and Willem Drees, Social Democrat and trade union leader...
Slow Going. In the Rhine lowlands, Crerar's troops were veterans of inundations. They hopped from island to island, from dike to dike, in their water-churning, mud-biting "Buffalo" and "Weasel" vehicles. On dry land the going was nearly as bad. The Germans had been able to concentrate. But by this week, behind fine air interference, Crerar's men had hacked out a dozen miles of grip on the Rhine. More importantly, his kilted Scots had broken into Goch, a hub of roads running into the industrial district west of the Rhine...
There were plenty of signs that food prices would continue to rise above the dike's top. Item: in Washington last week Senator John H. Bankhead, in a one-man exposition of a legislative bloc at work, blandly predicted to U.S. farmers that the Commodity Credit Corp. would continue for another year its open-purse support of agricultural prices...