Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these moves, WPB cautioned, did not mean that a flood of civilian goods will be turned out tomorrow; tight controls will still be kept oh the three basic materials, copper, steel and aluminum...
...huge flood of Russian might along the Oder and Neisse Rivers, fronting Berlin and Dresden, began to rise this week. The dikes crumpled first in the plains northeast of Berlin. Marshal Georgi Zhukov's forces, behind a tremendous predawn artillery shoot and attacks by swarms of bombers, broke into the Schwedt area below Stettin and set up a new Oder bridgehead 45 miles northeast of Berlin...
There was little doubt that the Red Army was ready to unloose the flood all along the Stettin-Dresden front. And there was no doubt of the outcome as the Russians pushed toward the Americans-at some points less than 80 miles away...
Sirs: Artificial insemination (TIME, Feb. 26), though perhaps desirable from the standpoint of eugenics, has its dangers. Some popular demagogue might aspire to be the actual father of his country. Some crooner might flood the country with too much of the same thing. ERNEST RASTALL Rockford...
...Then a Flood. Underlying all the haste in reconversion planning last week was a strong suspicion: the cutbacks, when they come, may be greater than now scheduled. Many a businessman was certain that the armed forces had overestimated the demands, enormous though they may be, of the Pacific...