Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Public Works. The President asked Congress for an extra $257 million for reclamation, flood control, hospital construction and other public works. With both parties agreed on speeding up the federal-state highway program, the Administration sent to Capitol Hill a proposal to put an additional $2.2 billion in federal money into the program over the next few years. The Senate Public Works Committee voted an even more souped-up highway bill. The House passed a hog-fat rivers and harbors (pork-barrel) bill...
...argument: his record. An outstanding administrator, he has kept his budget balanced, poured his surpluses into a series of development projects that have made the Sudan Africa's land of promise. He has resisted all Soviet attempts to infiltrate, sternly rebuffed both the blandishments and the threats that flood in from Egypt...
Sputtering over their gin and tonics, flushed with rage to the color of their rum Cokes, the loyal colonials directed a flood of letters and telephone calls to the News's managing director, Seward Toddings. He was invited to "come to the Queen of Bermuda and bring a piece of rope." He was advised that he should be operating a furnace in hell instead of a newspaper. The House of Assembly hastily voted its hearty displeasure, profound indignation, and poignant regret over the editorial. The News, visibly stiffening its upper lip. explained at length that no offense was intended...
...ENGLAND, whose chronically ill textile industry has been in bad shape for years, is in deepening recession despite a flood of new electronics plants. Unemployment claims are 100% higher than last year at this time; auto sales are down sharply; and retail business, which was ahead for January (up 3%), took a sudden 29% drop during the February snows, has not yet recovered. Yet mortgage foreclosures are still at a minimum, and such a sensitive economic barometer as New England's winter-sport industry shows a 12% increase...
...discounters got only distressed merchandise and off-brand appliances. Today, they are such important customers that many manufacturers rate them higher than department stores. One fast-rising newcomer: the "pricelegger," who out-discounts the discounter by operating from an office filled with catalogues, is able to push out a flood of goods for as much...