Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bird Charmer. Though the suicide was hushed up that afternoon to allow the New York Stock Exchange to close, the market opened the following Monday to a flood of "sell" orders on Kreuger stocks and bonds, to which hardheaded U.S. financiers and softheaded speculators alike had subscribed some $250 million. Prices plummeted; one issue of Kreuger stock opened at 5, off 37½ points from the previous close. In little over a month after his death, it was clear that Kreuger had been the world's greatest swindler, having "misappropriated" some $1,168,000,000 in nine years...
...FLOOD INSURANCE is expected to go on sale in May or June. Federal Flood Indemnity Administration has named 15-member committee from industry, agriculture to help smooth out problems facing its first substantial coverage, e.g.: Should $250,000 policy limit be applied to any company's total holdings, or to each separate facility owned by company...
...tempting solutions: the lowering of standards and haphazard expansion. Last week, in his first report as dean of the Graduate Faculties of Columbia University, Historian Jacques Barzun warned: "As the highest institution of learning, the graduate school suddenly finds that it may soon become the last dike in the flood. Elsewhere, the diluting of quality may do limited or temporary harm. Not at the top. Somewhere the idea of scholarship must be kept unimpaired. Clearly, the graduate school is the one autonomous place where this can and must be done...
...POWER POLICY is undergoing full-dress review by Administration. It is considering more public power for Pacific Northwest, where Republican senatorial candidates lost to public power proponents. Under debate: federal construction of two huge, multipurpose dams (for power, flood control, irrigation, etc.) on Columbia and Snake River sites now earmarked for private development of smaller, power-only dams...
...flood of refugees reached its crest, and southern Viet Nam doctors were hopelessly swamped, the Vietnamese Junior Chamber of Commerce appealed to its corresponding chapters in other lands for medical help. First to arrive were six doctors and three nurses from the Philippines, financed by contributions from schoolchildren. As "Operation Brotherhood" got rolling, in came three French nurses, four Japanese, 19 Nationalist Chinese, three Thais, five Malayans, two U.S. secretaries, and some 200 Filipino doctors, nurses, dentists, nutritionists, social workers. Aged 18 to 60,they manned 14 medical centers, traveled through the Mekong delta by canoe and sampan, by army...