Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decorator is evident in the atmosphere of the Club. With a twist of odd fabric for a curtain, a dangling red shaded lamp, and a small record player equipped with Charles Trenet records, she achieves a complete and quiet atmosphere for the Champagne lounge on the second flood. A "Cocteau machine," which relays the orders for Rose or Alsatain wines from downstairs, completes the picture. In the restaurant on the ground floor, a strategically placed modern lamp or a bull fight poster are some of the fitting additions to the twenty-five checkered cloth covered tables...
Springfield first baseman Al Griggs opened the second inning with a double to right field, then ambled home with the game's only run on George Flood's long triple to center, one out later...
...California, Balboa and nearby Balboa Island (combined pop. 4,873) were inundated by an even greater flood of noisy youth-35,000 boys & girls from schools in the Los Angeles area. For ten days they swam, sailed, necked, danced, drank, clogged traffic with their cars. Up the coast at Palos Verdes, a youthful promoter got a big crowd of youngsters at a dollar a head to watch a gasoline-drenched jalopy set afire and pushed off a cliff...
...whose sales usually jump with the warm weather, were worried over the number of cars on their lots. But new cars were still selling briskly, and dealers' inventories (nine cars apiece) were not considered high. A bigger question was how fast consumers will continue to buy the mounting flood of 1953 models pouring out of the plants; production has now reached a record rate of 7,000,000 cars a year...
...flood ruined much of the dorm's food supply and prevented use of the kitchen. The girls ate their Friday meals in other Quad dormitories...