Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investment and to pay back that investment over a period of 40 years. In this formula, however, there was a big joker. The Government investment would not be the total cost of the development but only that part allocated to power. The rest would be charged off to flood control or navigation. On the Tennessee River, Wilson Dam, for instance, is valued at $33,000,000 but for yardstick purposes the power investment is considered to be only $22,000,000. Division of the $51,000,000 investment in Bonneville has not yet been determined by the Federal Power Commission...
...hundred cities and a thousand towns but at what a cost." The forests of Wisconsin and Minnesota slip down sluices to the tune of "A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight." The Alleghenies are laid open in the quest for coal and ore. And the uncontrolled Mississippi floods to the delta, carrying the topsoil of the valley with it, leaving gullied hills, scalped plains. As an indication of how the great system can be saved from self destruction, an epilogue shows a glimpse of the flood control and reclamation work of the Tennessee Valley Authority...
...October 16, when, on the first page of "Notes and Coment," the New Yorker supposedly lost its illusions and declared that "the six-foot base drum in the Harvard band is a phoney." Result of this sudden and undeserved notoriety of the giant precession instrument has been a flood of publicity, news photos and wiaccracks during the last two weeks, including a mammoth burlesque of inanimate maternity by pacudo-obatririenna from Hanover before the deluge at the Dartmouth game...
...tried to read the Bible against God's wishes all the leaves came out." He says that one day when he was 14 years old and working in a cornfield, the figure of God appeared on the east edge of a cloud and showed him a great flood destroying the world. After that he was careful to follow divine instructions...
...astute Executive Director Norma K. Stahle first tried to engage Architect Gropius. Having just accepted Harvard's invitation (TIME, Feb. 8), Gropius declined, suggested that Moholy-Nagy, then working on photography and cinema in London, was "the best man they could get." In response to a flood of cables and letters from Miss Stahle and from Gropius, chunky Moholy-Nagy finally accepted a five-year contract. Last summer, while workmen were knocking down walls in the old Marshall Field mansion and making parlors into draughting rooms, the New Bauhaus director arrived in Chicago, genially explained that in England...