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Word: flooded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eyes at the 1,200,000-member union's headquarters are on the project. Says he: "Automation's a scare word, but if we're going to scare our men, let's scare them intelligently. There's no point in telling them a second flood is coming and nobody knows where the ark is. Our four-year course...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Meeting Automation | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...earth's oldest inhabited places. Confirmation of this theory depends on Blanc's efforts to find human bones to match the man-made axes. After exploring only a fraction of the Torre site, Blanc says optimistically: "This place is a kind of prehistoric Pompeii. Something, presumably sudden flood or volcanic material, forced these people to leave in a hurry. I know it's unchristian of me, but I can't help hoping that one of them got caught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Diggers | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...annual alumni report, just released, Griswold maintained that Yale cannot serve "the common good by casting itself into the flood of expanded enrollments. If Yale's position in American education depends on its size, we have already lost the battle...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Won't Expand Yet, Says Griswold | 11/15/1955 | See Source »

...indirect aid to the victims of the flood, mostly by the abatement of taxes on property damaged 50% or more, also by providing about 300 temporary homes, low-interest mortgage and low-rental housing facilities. ¶$16,675,000 to municipalities and towns for repair of roads, bridges, schools, playgrounds and other public properties. ¶$16, 286,000 to state departments and agencies for the repair of state highways and bridges, for the repair of buildings administered by local housing authorities, and for rehabilitating state properties such as parks, forests and official cars. Next week Ribicoff will propose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: Sharing the Cost | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

...Governors. Senators and Representatives of four Western states voted to drop the controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado's northwest corner. The four-state group now plans to push four other dams in a bill to be introduced in Congress next session...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: Dam Week | 11/14/1955 | See Source »

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