Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell so far short of maximum production. With some 4,000,000 more at work than ever before, the Federal Reserve Board index of industrial production never got above 185, falling far short of the peak war rate. In short, though the U.S. did pour out the greatest flood of products in peacetime history, it took far more than a proportionate increase of workers...
Tinker's Dam. Had 1946 ended as it began, Molotov would have been the year's man. He rode the postwar Russian flood, whipping it with a hard wind of propaganda. It welled up to the Persian plateau 22 miles from Teheran; it seeped deeply into China, licked at Tripolitania, reached for the Dardanelles, almost engulfed Trieste, soaked Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria, Rumania, Yugoslavia, threatened Germany, Austria, and even (through Russia's Communist Parties) Italy and France...
Before the year was out, however, the Russian flood was contained. On the dam that held it many men had labored- Bevin and Bidault, General Lucius Clay in Germany, Mark Clark in Austria, The Netherlands' Eelco van Kleffens and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak in U.N., Mac-Arthur in Japan, Chiang Kai-shek in China, and, eminently, Senator Arthur Vandenberg in the U.S. But the dam's chief builder was James F. Byrnes of Spartanburg, S.C., who became the firm and patient voice of the U.S. in the councils of the world...
...Buchsbaum was still determined to break the strike until he faced a committee of employes across a conference table. He told them that he opposed unions because they limited production. They answered with a flood of suggestions for increasing production by eliminating inefficiencies. Said Buchsbaum: "I could see how I could save thousands of dollars. . . . They had my interests at heart - as well as their own." In a flush of enthusiasm he granted the union the checkoff, a 5?-an-hour wage increase, and the right to examine the company's books...
...Antarctic's living creatures, from whales to comic penguins, will not be neglected. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, eagerly awaiting a flood of new information, has briefed the expedition on how to get well-preserved specimens back to civilization: "Use knives in cutting them up. Never axes or saws...