Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, under a flood of selling, Moly was going down faster than a guided missile. Off 15 points from its high as the week began, Moly dropped another 24 points in five days to a low of $41. In Toronto, angry investors swirled into Watt & Watt trying to get out of Moly. At one point, there were so many orders to sell that trading on the curb had to be stopped...
...Flood control...
...During July the costliest flood in U.S. history swept over 2,000,000 acres around...
Violent River. There is nothing seamy or shoddy, though, about Fleming's account of Fredericksville's struggle against the Savannah River in full flood. Under the grey smear of incessant rain, its people scrabble heroically for survival behind their leaky dike. The warm yellow water climbs a foot an hour up the face of the levee. Sweating, grunting workers raise extra barriers of sandbags just ahead of the rising river. Sand-boils, bubbles, slides and settles, one after another, threaten to wipe out all efforts in one great gush of doom. The glare of fusees mixes menacingly with...
...Battles. As the high water crests along the levee, Barfield finds himself waging two battles, one against the flood, the other against Vitner. That he manages to win both with no loss of personal integrity is due as much to the dogged skill of the engineer in charge, whose wife he coveted, as to Vitner's secret softheartedness with flesh & blood people in trouble...