Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past two years a steady stream of Asian women and children, mostly Indians seeking reunion with husbands and parents, has poured into South Africa to join the 360,000 Asians already there. Last week the flow reached flood proportions, then stopped as suddenly as the flow of water from a reservoir when the sluice gates are closed. In late 1953 South Africa passed a law barring all future immigration of Asians into white-supremist South Africa. On the night before the law went into effect last week, the airports were jammed with last-minute arrivals. A party of 150 Asians...
...storm sweeps northward, shore stations and offshore Texas towers will measure its waves. Their radars will plot the streams of rain. If the hurricane hits land, Army engineers will collect flood data; the Hydrographic Office and the Coast and Geodetic Survey will observe wave effects. The enormous mass of information will be put on punch cards, fed into a machine and turned into a clear report of how the hurricane is behaving and is likely to behave...
...second straight game the opposition scored on the Crimson within the first minute of play. Dick Flood tallied at 0:44 after a face-off in the varsity zone, and it wasn't until 12:04 that center Bob Cleary tied the game on a rebound...
Stockholders in U.S. corporations have never had it so good. The Commerce Department reported last week that cash dividends in 1955 totaled a record $10.4 billion v. $9.2 billion paid them in 1954, the previous peak year. And as a flood of record earnings came out last week, the prospects looked good for continued fat dividends. Among the leaders...
From every corner of U.S. industry last week came a cresting flood of 1955 earnings reports. As nothing else, they pinpointed the economy's continuing good health and expanding markets. One prime example was cosmetics-maker Revlon, Inc., which won the annual TV sweepstakes by latching onto the $64,000 Question. President Charles Revson reported that Revlon had a 54% sales increase to $51.6 million for the year, counted record profits of $3,500,000 v. $1,200,000 in 1954. And sales are still climbing...