Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...play-on-words has caught the voters' attention. Asked to define a "power politician," Collins called him "one interested in helping himself rather than the city, who has a big campaign chest, and who in the final days of the campaign will try to submerge the issues under a flood of newspaper advertisements and radio-television appearances...
...years later, during World War II, Fort Worth, Texas, instituted a similar program to take care of a flood of new students. But, as soon as they had a chance, all three communities abandoned...
...individuals, the hope of presenting a clear American viewpoint, and the curiosity to see first hand how the Soviets would run a show for 20,000. The objectives were twofold: to counter the Communist party line directed at festival participants, and to provide material opposed to the Communist's flood of propaganda both during and after the Festival...
Clearest symptom of the chaos was the sudden and steep decline in China's exports. In 1958 Peking had begun to invade the markets of Southeast Asia with a flood of inexpensive bicycles, textiles, rice. By underselling Japan, Red China increased its exports to Singapore and Malaya by 23%, nearly doubled its trade with Thailand and Ceylon. But by this spring Red China was unable to fill even longstanding orders. At the annual trade fair in Canton last May, export sales were down 56% from the previous year...
Harsh & Punitive. It was clear to LaBuy that the Government's plan would depress Du Pont stock by eliminating the huge dividends that the company is paid by G.M. (1958 total: $116 million). By forcing Du Pont to sell 2,000,000 G.M. shares yearly, it would also flood the market with G.M. stock, depress the price of G.M. More important to LaBuy was a ruling by the Internal Revenue Service that any G.M. shares spun off to Du Pont stockholders would be taxed at the full market value as ordinary income...