Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Troops from Europe are already arriving and moving toward their homes -with their parents, wives and sweethearts going to meet them. By the end of the month many of the same men will be moving over western roads toward the Pacific. And these movements will mount like a swelling flood...
...London News Chronicle, "Hermann G&246ring is an evil, cruel murderer." In the U.S., the usually mild Christian Science Monitor thundered: "Here is no captive entitled to the usual military courtesies. This man has murdered and plundered on an international scale." Said Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman D. J. Flood: "This schweehturnie...
...outpouring of first-quarter earnings hit their flood last week, they washed up a few surprises. Biggest surprise was that many companies made more money this year than in the vintage year of 1944. despite a wide shift in war orders and increasing operating costs. The National City Bank of New York, totting up the returns of some 310 companies, reported that net profits, after taxes, were up a respectable 6% for the quarter...
Secretary Stettinius last week let newsmen inspect the penthouse where he and his Big Power colleagues called the tune for the San Francisco conference. The apartment, atop the Fairmont Hotel, had been lent to Mr. Stettinius by wealthy Mrs. James Leary Flood, whose fortune originally came from the famous Comstock Lode (Nevada gold, silver). The facilities included a superb view of San Francisco's hills and bay, four bedrooms with bath, a circular library with a blue ceiling, and two love seats, upholstered in green, where Viacheslav Molotov and his consultants sat during the Big Power meetings...
...Flood's guests had a fifty-fifty week. On the main business of the conference-the drafting of a charter for a world organization-the Big Three statesmen and their Big Four partner, China's T. V. Soong, made astonishing progress. On the symbolic, overshadowing issue of Poland, the Big Three had to admit an appalling failure...