Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Like a Flood. In membership, the Little League is the world's biggest baseball organization. It was started in Williamsport in 1939 by Businessman Carl E. Stotz, 43, who decided that organized baseball was just the tonic for lads too small or too young to get into their big brothers' games. Rallying support from local businessmen, Stotz soon had a three-team league-with regulation uniforms, coaches and managers-going full blast...
After World War II, with his idea on the go like a Susquehanna flood, Stotz asked U.S. Rubber Co. if it would make a rubber-cleated shoe for his Little Leaguers. The company not only agreed to turn out the shoe (the Little League now gives approval to any manufacturer meeting its specifications), but also to underwrite most of the Little League's central expenses as "enlightened public relations." This year, U.S. Rubber donated about $150,000 toward operating the league's 25-staffer headquarters in Williamsport and footing World Series players' traveling expenses. Other league activities...
...some ways, the building of a new school is nothing more than a process of elimination. The whole idea is to eliminate as many blocks and barriers as possible. Air must flow and light flood in; the building must be capable of shrinking or growing according to the tides of population, and it must be made for use at all hours of the day. To please the taxpayer, the architect must also pay attention to cost-rby cutting down on stairways, waste space, and such traditional gimcracks as Greek columns, Georgian domes and Gothic towers. But most...
...though better than ever before, are still less than good. (The Navy, which had advance warning of the Batista coup d'état in Cuba last year, failed to pass the word on to CIA.) Because of insufficient filtering and analysis at lower levels, a vast and confusing flood of information is still passed up to top U.S. officials. Says Dulles: "We have got to get more selective, and that may mean fewer people...
Wall Streeters had expected corporate earnings to be good for the second quarter. But the flood of reports that came out last week equaled or exceeded their expectations. A sampling of more than 100 companies which reported for the second quarter (or for the first six months) showed higher profits than a year ago for 77% of the list...