Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flood or Fire. What he wanted to know, said Kawamura, was why he had been hagridden by bad luck since birth? "My parents died when I was a child; I have no living kin. I never met a girl who would marry me. I am being haunted, but I don't know what my crime has been." He poured out more of his woes: when he got a job, he was either fired or the company went bankrupt; when he tried to be a peddler, no one would buy his combs and bits of ribbon; he had failed...
...wholesale flood of credit. In the new economy so many other financial institutions -insurance companies, finance companies, savings and loan associations-have grown up that the nation's credit pool is increasingly independent of the FRB. Nor was Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. in any tearing hurry to force feed the economy. Said Martin: "During a boom, waste and inefficiency creep in naturally. It's hard not to believe that recession does a lot of business a lot of good...
...Governor Averell Harriman and ex-Senator Herbert Lehman). The council urged greatly expanded federal programs in social security, health, education, agriculture, public works and welfare, area redevelopment and urban renewal, did not attempt to put a price tag on the proposals. Virginia's economy-minded Senator Harry Flood Byrd-no member of the council-did. His estimate: $5 billion or $6 billion a year...
...religion, riot, murder, spectacle, horror, comedy, music, dancing, miscegenation, cops, robbers, concubines, children, horses, the best scenery in Wales, the worst chinoiserie ever seen on screen, a success story that is invincibly feminist and relentlessly cheery, and more sheer treacle than anybody has seen since the Great Boston Molasses Flood...
...rich quick. Puritanical Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, who followed Alemán in 1952, took the role of consolidator. He hooked up power lines and irrigation canals to Alemán's dams, cleaned up corruption, opened new areas for food growing. Quietly, he encouraged foreign investors to flood into Mexico with capital, machinery, ideas to feed the boom that incoming President Adolfo López Mateos inherited this week...