Word: flooded
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Just as remarkable, Romney has proved a powerful competitor not only against the Big Three but against a flood of small imported cars, whose chief selling point is even lower cost and greater economy than the Rambler. This year the 60-odd foreign cars coming into the U.S. are expected to account for 560,000 units, or more than 10% of the U.S. market. But Rambler's sales have risen faster than any of the imports...
Word from the Sponsor. Noted, after seven months, was the fact that Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel J. Flood got printed in the appendix of the Aug. 21 Congressional Record (circ. 42,400) a lengthy advertisement for Diplomat cigarettes (manufactured in Wilkes-Barre). Last week, after his fellow Congressmen began receiving "reprints" courtesy of the manufacturer, nonsmoking Daniel Flood allowed as he had no objection to use of the Record to reprint ads: "I see nothing wrong...
Other speakers, representing the Community Boating Club, M.I.T., and commercial, civic, and neighborhood groups, presented further objections to the committee, including serious flood danger, loss of recreational and civic assets, and the cost to the city of providing additional schools and services for the project, which, they said, would more than offset any tax benefit that it would provide...
...Flood from the South. South Tyrol's 200,000 German-speaking people, subjects of the House of Habsburg for 555 years, never cottoned to the idea that they were Italian. At the end of World War II, the late Italian Premier Alcide de Gasperi* agreed with Austrian Foreign Minister Karl Gruber to give the region autonomy within the Italian Republic, to allow German in the schools and in government offices, if the Austrians would consider the issue closed...
There was still talk that stocks were rising because they were a hedge against inflation. Yet in the last six months there has been almost no inflationary increase. More important to market traders was the gain in industrial activity, and the flood of bright earnings reports and stock splits that accompanied...