Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drowning of the Welsh village of Dolwyn, in the last years of the 19th century. Dolwyn is a completely rural community, caught in the gears of the Industrial Revolution. As part of a plan to supply water to the growing city of Liverpool, the Lord of Lancashire intends to flood the valley of Dolwyn, thus causing the destruction of the ancient village...
...Last Amendment." Patiently, as the day wore on, Douglas tried to knock out $200 million for flood control on the lower Mississippi River, $100 million of projects in the Ohio River Basin, $89 million for the Arkansas River Basin. Except for Delaware's John Williams and Virginia's inveterate economizer, Harry Byrd, he had almost no support. Most of his colleagues sat, exasperated...
...Rochester Scientists decided, was the final stroke in a pattern of "increasingly despotic control" from Boston. By week's end the directors of the Mother Church had not made a formal statement on the split. But the Rochester dissenters happily announced that they had already received a flood of approving mail from Christian Scientists all over...
...dredging and flood control projects that the government undertakes are given over to the Army Engineers, responsible directly to Congress. The Engineers hire sub-contractors and bear the entire cost of projects from the tidy appropriation. Even if the improvement helps only one individual or company, the Government still has to pay the bill. This is the one way Congress has of letting the people back home know that the legislators are looking after their interests...
Reporters for the State Department's Voice of America have long been barred from Senate and House press galleries; Washington newsmen feared that admitting the Voice would open the dikes to a flood of other "Government propagandists" (TIME, Feb. 27). But friends of the Voice pointed out that either its reporters needed seats to cover the news, or the U.S. didn't need the Voice. Last week a compromise was worked out : Voice Reporters Joseph Sitrick and Grattan McGroarty were admitted to the periodicals (magazine) galleries on an unofficial basis...