Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Johnson-who was working on the economy when not busy with space-Senate Democrats were drafting six other recession-inspired bills, calling for increased federal spending for: roads (Gore), housing (Alabama's John Spark-man), hospitals (Alabama's Lister Hill), reclamation (New Mexico's Clinton Anderson), flood control (Oklahoma's Robert Kerr), aid to small business (Arkansas' William Fulbright...
Around the world, both hams and professional radio stations picked up the Explorer's signals, sometimes recorded them on magnetic tape. They poured reports from the satellite's instruments into IGY headquarters in Washington and other official centers, in an ever-increasing flood. Analysis of the reports is a long, painstaking business, but already some of the data have been made public. The Explorer's orbit has been pinpointed fairly accurately (see diagram). According to the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory at Cambridge, Mass., it crosses the equator at an angle of 33.5°, and takes 115 minutes...
...Congress debated last week on federal aid to education, a fresh flood of reports swamped Washington with evidence of the sorry state of the nation's schools. Items...
...build two more private dams-costing $170 million-downstream at Mountain Sheep and Pleasant Valley. FPC said it favors a far bigger $450 million dam farther downstream at Nez Perce, which would produce 1,672,000 kw. and store 3,900,000 acre-feet of water, also curb the flood-prone Salmon River, a wild branch of the Snake. Though FPC left Nez Perce open to private construction by Pacific Northwest Power, a four-company combine, powermen feared that such a dam would almost certainly need heavy federal financing because of its cost...
...Weather Bureau warned early this morning that the Charles River was rising and already overflowing at certain points. Precautions against flood conditions were taken after a two-day storm lashed New England...