Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been arguing that the answer lies in a common West European market. A common market would allow each of the member nations to specialize in the goods that it produces best. If tariffs were abolished, for example. Britain's camera manufacturers might well be swept away in a flood ot superior German-made Leicas and Rollei-flexes (now subject in Britain to 50% ad valorem duty), but the host of new amateur photographers that would spring up once German cameras were cheaply available to all Europeans would buy a great deal more of Britain's excellent film...
Over the Hump. Next day Nixon was not only sick, but woozy from the flood of antibiotics. Dr. Todd began shooting him full of vitamins, but Nixon was still able to deliver only 16 minutes of his Oklahoma City speech. Filling in briefly for him after that was his wife and campaign companion, Pat Nixon, who made up in charm what her talk lacked in high-flown political oratory. Said Pat: "We're very willing to work night and day and to join with you in trying-in our attempt-to elect our great President and in working...
...outside West Germany. Belgium, Holland and Switzerland all have stable money and trade balances, could probably compete under the terms of free currency exchange. Italy, too, is moving ahead rapidly; the lira has been stabilized at 625 to the dollar, and, while Italy has a sizable trade deficit, the flood of tourist dollars helps right the balance, has pushed foreign currency reserves to a near record $1.2 billion...
...most obvious results of this policy are shown in the Pacific Northwest, where McKay withdrew Interior Department support for a high federal dam at Hells Canyon. Then the FPC ignored its examiner, who had found that a high dam would provide more power, more flood control, more navigation, and more recreation for the Hells Canyon area than the three low private dams. The FPC granted permission for the three-dam plan...
...channel stretching into Texas. By the time Holland died in 1945 (Miller died in 1946), all but a final 140-mile section in Texas was finished; the waterway was 125 ft. wide and 12 ft. deep along most of its length, completely fitted out with locks, flood-control dams and side canals running up to important inland cities...