Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Gulf to Gulf. This year three huge irrigation plants and half a dozen smaller projects have been completed. The "Lázaro Cárdenas," fourth largest earthen dam in the world, held back the waters of the Nazas River ia September 1944, during the worst flood in 53 years, protected the cities of Torreón, Lerdo and Gómes Palacio in the plains of northern Mexico. This more than compensated for the $16 million the dam has cost to date. On the 280,000 acres it irrigates live 35,000 peasant families...
...gathering tide of undergraduate disapproval of the H.A.A., temporarily slowed by the Student Council sop earlier in the fall, burst into an angry flood yesterday morning. Everywhere, students were agreed that the H.A.A. stood convicted not only of playing fast and loose with the undergraduate body, but of an almost criminal inefficiency...
...special police will be called out to handle the swarms of automobiles and celebrants expected to flood Cambridge over the weekend, the Cambridge police department announced yesterday...
High Blood Pressure. On the morning after the storm, many a Democrat struggled out of his Mae West and decided that something might be built out of such fine wreckage before 1948. Some tried to deny that there had been a Republican flood at all - just a heavy dew - cried that a small shift in the vote would have made all the difference. But Republicans, who had been saying the same things themselves for 14 long years, were confident that the salvage job would be a lot harder than it looked. They had been there...
...Engineering & Research Corp., maker of the non-spinnable Ercoupe, shut up shop for 30 days, announced that it would cut production 30% when it reopened because of a flood of cancellations. ¶ Globe Aircraft Corp. cut production of the Swift almost 20% because of "limited demand due to seasonal conditions...