Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy, swelled the Po. Italy's largest river went on rampage, smashing dikes, crumbling farmhouses, sending truckloads of refugees into Milan. Then came a disastrous coincidence: roaring winds from the east pounded the Adriatic, rolling up high waves which pushed against the Po's outlet, backed the flood waters up on the land. Italy, a land which has often played host to one or more of the four dread Riders of the Apocalypse, lay gasping last week under the worst flood in a century. The loss so far: thousands of miles of valuable farmlands, more than 150 lives...
...Communists did their best to exploit the disaster. First they spread the rumor that U.S. A-bomb experiments had caused all the rainfall and the flood. A surprising number of Italians seemed to believe such nonsense. Not missing a trick, the Communists then demanded that the Rome government divert arms appropriations to flood relief...
...week's end, as though Italy had not suffered enough, typhoid threatened to break out. Engineers surveying the area concluded that it would be months before flood waters receded from the Po delta, bread basket of Italy...
Border guards have tried to stamp out the smuggling with extra patrols and more careful searches. The courts have stiffened the penalties for large-scale smuggling, raising the customary $200 fine to $1,000 and confiscating trucks caught carrying contraband. But the flood, estimated at 50 million bootleg cigarettes a month, continues unabated. The price is too good, the demand too great, the border too long and too free...
Unlike documentaries such as "The River," which reported the damage from a Mississippi River flood. Cron attempts to create a mythological cycle which is emotionally and psychologically connected with his audience. The story of the D.P.'s first day and a half, of their attempts to imitate those around them, of their assimilation into the West End society, is the story of any person arriving into a new environment...