Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your presentation ... is excellent. It might have pointed up the critical need for flood control. Billions of dollars of property damage, the many lives lost and perennial anxiety are the toll of these recurring floods, and will continue to be ... We know how to control floods, but we spend our time debating methods rather than completing the projects already authorized...
...Louis Flood Control Assn. St. Louis...
Even in intimate contact with the swing of civilization, the kings of couture have this year anticipated the predicted conquest of the world by the insect kingdom in a flood of fall fashions that imitate the ant, burlesque the beetle and copy the katydid...
...phenomenon of the bestseller lists these days is the plentiful variety of good seagoing fare. Herman Wouk's The Caine Mutiny rolled in first, more than a year ago;* since then there has been a flood tide of such salty works as Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us and Under the Sea Wind, Nicholas Monsarrat's novel of convoys battling The Cruel Sea, and Commander Edward L. Beach's Submarine! The latest sample of the true brine is Jan de Hartog's The Distant Shore, a Literary Guild selection for September...
This year, after Kansas' billion-dollar flood of 1951 served notice that the Kansas City area might be inundated again & again until the Kansas and its tributaries were controlled, Congress appropriated $5,000,000 to start Tuttle Creek Dams. Embattled Blue Valley residents still hope to block the project's completion, and their warning that "if Tuttle Creek is built, there is a shadow and threat over every fertile valley in the Missouri Basin" has not gone unnoticed in farmhouses that have been marked for condemnation in other river valleys if the "big dam" principle wins...