Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quintuple its population (from 2,500 to 13,000). A mobile city of 1,200 trailers sprang up almost overnight. In nearby Augusta, Ga., whose population shot from 71,040 to 150,000 in two years, it was easy to forget the plant's grim purpose in the flood of new jobs it brought. When White's Department Store hung out a Christmas sign, "Santa Claus Is Here!", Reporter Esther Young of the Augusta Chronicle cracked: "Why, everybody knows that Santa Claus is over at the H-bomb plant's pay windows...
...were hardly needed in the cold-war economy of 1952. In any case, the Administration's controls were a mockery; price and wage bosses went in & out of office so fast that most civilians hardly knew-or cared-who was in charge. The tremendous flood of industrial production, plus a bumper farm crop, kept prices stable and checked inflation. By year's end. commodities were down 12½%, almost back to their pre-Korea level...
When they started for the volcano on board the research yacht Observer, they had been told that its activity was dying down. This report, they found, was premature. A great hole had opened in the side of the cone 150 ft. above sea level, and a tumbling flood of orange-hot lava blocks was building a hissing delta. The two men crept as near as they dared and estimated the lava's temperature as about...
...agency would have authority to build dams and possibly assume such other financial burdens as flood control, navigation, fish & wildlife and recreation -all of which now get direct appropriations from Congress. Its financing would come primarily from revenue bonds...
...After a flood of unfavorable publicity had forced four Stolkin men to step down from the board, Stolkin turned to Hughes because he still has a sizable financial interest in RKO (the group still owes Hughes some $6,000,000, to be paid off in 2½ years), and seemed to be the only one willing to try to put the studio's humpty-dumpty operation together. Hughes, reluctant to step back into RKO, promised to keep his eccentric hand off picture production...