Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bottle coolers, and a strange gadget called the Xervac, designed to stimulate hair growth by alternate vacuum and pressure. These big and little lines are all gathered under an $8,800,000 corporation, Crosley Radio Corp., which last year lost $376,915 (partly because of damage by fire and flood), but which had average net profits of $820,000 for the three previous years. About 33% of sales are radios, 50% refrigerators...
...resolution. Governor Hurley has called a special session of the Legislature to deal with the hurricane emergency but no action will be taken at this time as the legislators have agreed among themselves to keep the session short and restrict it to legislation directly concerned with the hurricane and flood. A member of the Cambridge Council said that if did reach the Legislature in January the "Harvard City" resolution would not have a prayer of passing...
...night last week in Calders, Wis., burglars set to work on the safe of Calders Elevator Co. When the safe's protective mechanism released a flood of tear gas they had to leave. Not discouraged, they marched down the street, broke into a firehouse, stole two gas masks, returned to the safe, finished the job ($400 cash, $2,800 nontransferable stock...
What hundreds of Soviet soldiers, tanks and heavy guns were unable to do ten weeks ago-drive the Japanese off bleak & barren Changkufeng hill on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border-September's floods accomplished. Last week travelers from Manchukuo reported that Russian troops, after Japanese retired before the flood, planted their red flag atop the hill and began to pit it with fortifications...
...trillions of tons of rain on New England, the hurricane swelled rivers already swollen by three days of ordinary rain. Highways and railroads were washed out. In the Connecticut Valley cities marshaled sandbag brigades. Hartford held its breath while the dike by the Colt Arms factory held through a flood stage 36.45 feet. In the Thames Valley, Norwich, Conn., isolated, was supplied with food and medicines by airplane...