Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guns of Communist China fire only fitfully these days across the Formosa Strait. Southeast Asia's Communist guerrillas are in retreat. Red China, racked by agrarian unrest, by industrial and political upheaval, by flood and famine, has turned its attention inward. Throughout the Asian rimland there are signs-some faint, some clearly visible-that peace and order have begun to creep into the ascendant. Politically, only one nation-Indonesia -still thrashes in chaos. Economically, inflation has hurt eastern Asia less than some others; several nations, led by Japan, are surging toward prosperity...
...Alexander Korda, the British movie mogul, signed her to a seven-year, nonexclusive contract. The late great Albert Basserman dragged her off on a tour of Europe to play Gretchen to his Faust. By 1950 she was in a flood tide of some of the weepiest (and most popular) German pictures ever made. This was her Seelchenperiode as a leidender Engel (suffering angel), the shopgirl's ideal, when the Schell smile was as famous in Germany as the Monroe walkaway was in the U.S. Maria and Dieter Borsche, with whom she was starred in Es Kommt Ein Tag, were...
Stone Starter. The U.S. dairy industry issues a flood of calorific propaganda, blazoning on hundreds of thousands of cartons the legend, "You never outgrow your need for milk-drink three glasses of milk a day!" The message is illustrated with drawings of three generations of contented consumers. In the U.S. generally, adults are drinking far more milk as a table beverage than people in the rest of the world, where it is usually reserved for children and for cooking. What put the milk fat in the fire was a single change of rules in the Yale dining hall: instead...
...prosecution and defense wound up their case, Feuillet's icy calm cracked in a flood of tears. Last week he was found guilty of "gross neglect" and "unscrupulous" behavior, sentenced to the maximum penalty under French law: two years in prison and a million francs ($2,500) fine. To the Stalinon victims and their families, the court awarded $1,533,000 in damages, but they were not likely to collect: both Feuillet and the owner of the pharmaceutical firm that manufactured Stalinon deny that they have the money...
...much of 1957's expansion was for new production to catch up with blossoming markets or to supply new markets created by research. Industry laid out a staggering $7.3 billion for research and development, some 20% more than ever before. Every businessman knew that the money will eventually flood back to industry, as laboratory oddities turn into new consumer products. General Electric learned to make synthetic diamonds so cheaply that they will soon start competing with natural stones for industrial use. It also developed the first really practical telephone-TV system, plans to install the first...