Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee, while concluding that there is no "sound" way of making outright grants to individual, flood victims, specifically recommended that the state raise and disburse...
...August, the greatest flood in the history of the northeastern U.S. took almost 100 lives in the state of Connecticut, and caused about $200 million worth of damage. Six hundred and sixty-eight homes were destroyed and 7,673 were damaged, at a cost of $27.2 million; 1,943 business establishments and 922 farms suffered losses of $136,400,000. Last month a second flood ravaged Connecticut, taking 17 lives and causing about $30 million worth of damage. Last week a 20-man Flood Recovery Committee recommended to Governor Abraham Ribicoff that the state's share of the bill...
...good college teachers are becoming harder and harder to recruit. Thus, the nation's colleges and universities are already up to their neck in financial troubles; at this point the approaching wave of war babies, forcing lowered standards of teaching and facilities, could easily drown American education in a flood of mediocrity...
...Variable flood losses from year to year present too much of a risk for insurance companies to offer private insurance, he added...
...bills concerning federal flood insurance have already been proposed, one by Sen. Herbert Lehman of New York and the other by Senators Leverett Saltonstall '14 and John F. Kennedy '40 of Massachusetts. Harris has drafted a more comprehensive bill for consideration by the committee. He expects these three bills, with proposals from the Administration, to be combined in a single bill for presentation to Congress at its next session in January...