Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...governor around. ¶The Senate voted to increase by $3 a month Federal assistance to the aged, blind and disabled, boost aid for dependent children by $2 a month. Cost: $140 million more a year. ¶Both houses upped the President's request for $15 million for Midwest flood victims, made it $25 million...
...Kansas and Missouri, sweat-stained thousands set out to clear their homes after the nation's costliest flood. In the muck and debris left by receding waters, people fought rats, flies and fumes from gas leaks. Raging waters of the Kaw and the Missouri had killed 41 people, sent 500,000 fleeing, caused $875 million damage, flooded 2,000,000 acres. While the flood rolled on -less dangerously-into the Mississippi and past St. Louis, local, state and federal officials began to discuss what could be done for the future. Major General Lewis A. Pick, Chief of Army Engineers...
Water is being trucked to small towns. Arizona's rainfall in all of 1950 was 7.5 inches, the lowest on record (in the Kansas-Missouri flood, 12 inches fell in 72 hours). Overplanting of cotton, overgrazing of cattle is depleting the ground water supply. Arizona's $300 million agricultural economy is in peril from the years of dryness, and some alarmed Arizonans fear a general exodus from the state if rain doesn't come...
...Flood stories are nothing new in the Midwestern flatlands, and most seasoned editors are old hands at covering them. But last week, as the crest of the area's costliest flood (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) swept down the Missouri to the Mississippi, the big job for many editors was not merely to report the flood; it was to find ways to print papers in flooded plants and get them distributed...
...Save the King." A little after 10 p.m., July 30, Kerans ordered "Slip cable!" Minutes later his ship was on her way. Soon after, the Communists guns opened up and Kerans felt a shell whoosh past his neck, but the Amethyst was untouched. Then she began to flood from a waterline shell hole suffered in the first day's attack. In the engineroom the depleted crew of eleven worked at temperatures up to 170 degrees, drank ten gallons of tea during the frantic run. In the chart-room, two men tried to pick out the channel with an echo...