Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three parties. The man who two years ago thought he had no authority to seize the coal mines now claimed the power to take over the steel mills "by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States." Then, in a flood of intemperate language unmatched since his rawhiding of the striking railroad workers in 1946,* the President launched into an angry dressing-down of the whole steel industry...
Thus, Maass said, "the main problem is adjusting to the flood hazard by a program that will give maximum benefits at minimum costs, and this program does not necessarily mean exclusive dam or levee control...
According to Maass, this implies that there was greater damage in Indian days but he said that this is obviously foolish, since it is human occupancy that contributes to flood damage and the Indians did not settle in the flood plains...
...Ridiculous" was the word Maass used to describe a recent statement by General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of the Army Engineering Corps, that the current flood damage is the greatest in "white man's history...
Army Engineers have failed to take into account all possible adjustments which might be made to the Missouri Basin. Maass concluded, and "their surveys of the problem are devoted almost exclusively to engineering works for flood protection because they, like so many engineers, just like to pour concrete...