Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...individual observations. Usually, TIME'S editors do the work of piecing together; sometimes much of this work is done for them by a reporter in the field, working from the accounts of other men. That is what happened on TIME'S story of the Kansas City flood...
...flood was covered by TIME String (part-time) Correspondent Champ Clark, grandson of Missouri's late Speaker of the House and son of former Senator Bennett Clark, now U.S. Circuit Judge in the District of Columbia. Young (28) Clark's regular work is at the rewrite desk of the Kansas City Star, where he was assigned late in June, wettest month on Kansas weather records, to write the stories on flood conditions throughout the region...
...Ottawa, Kans. Daily Herald (circ. 6,194) was just starting its afternoon press run when the flood waters from the Kaw River began lapping at its doors. In the basement, pressmen rigged a block & tackle to hoist the electric press motor above the water, finally gave up the race when the flood kept coming. Then the Herald staff waded waist-deep out of the shop to set up an airplane shuttle service between Ottawa and a printing plant in Chanute, 80 miles away. The Herald didn't miss an edition...
...staff trundled eight-page forms out of the building through four feet of water, set up temporary quarters a mile away at Kansas State College. There they joined with the Kansas State Collegian (circ. 8,376) and the rival Manhattan Tribune-News (circ. 3,365) in a joint flood edition. The lola Register (circ. 4435) went to press with a farm tractor harnessed to the presses for power...
While Reporter Bernard Turnbull was out on a pre-dawn flood assignment, he missed a bit of news at home: his house was flooded to the eaves and his 21-year-old son was rescued by boat from the roof...