Word: flood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plane at 250 ft. a second. The Tennessee-North Carolina line was turned over to the National Park Rangers, served for five weeks until a sleet storm sheathed the wire with ice and caused a break. By & large, wire-laying by plane is useful only in emergency: flood, earthquake...
...least five U.S. firms are now producing Bailey bridge parts for the Army and Lend-Lease, but none sees a bright postwar future for it. At 12½? a foot, a Bailey costs twice as much as a conventionally built steel bridge. But in flood country, where bridge washouts are frequent, Baileys may well be kept tucked away for emergency...
...sudden flood of Army orders also washed all the complacency out of other metal markets. Tin, zinc and lead were all back on the critical-shortage list (along with lesser items like antimony, tungsten and cadmium). Metal men who had talked of plans to revive a little bit of production for civilian uses tossed many plans for the 4,200 spot reconversion programs out the window when WPB cut out their steel and copper allotments for the second quarter. The grim poverty of metals for war's uses had even shortened the supply for essential civilian production. Not even...
...great offensive across the Roer, scheduled for Feb. 10, had been postponed when the Germans loosed a flood from the dams in the Roer headwaters. Last week the river was falling, but it was still swift and turbulent and several feet above the normal level. At Düren it was 50 to 60 yards wide, and the current was running at six to seven miles an hour...
...With Italy a hunger-anarchy, France a political economic chaos, Spain, peaceful and calm, is the next bulwark against the Red flood...