Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the heavy damage done by the summer flood to its flats. The new Leverett House Dramatic Society is planning to present a fall production entitled "An Evening With Saroyan" on the first three days of December...
...much, nigel offers the molesworth daydream service ("Are you fatigued? Bored, rundown . . .? Help yourself to a MOLESWORTH DAYDREAM. Simple, easy to operate. No gadgets . . ."). Best among the catalogue of daydreams offered is the one in which the whole school is swept away by the grate st custard's flood, but molesworth and prudence entwhistle, the beautiful under-matron, survive in a rowboat ("how peaceful it is upon the waters nigel...
...FLOOD DAMAGE in the Northeast from hurricanes Connie and Diane will hit $157 million, according to the Business & Defense Services Administration, instead of the original $2 billion estimate, and the actual cost to businessmen will be a lot less. Reason: unpublicized gestures by a large segment of U.S. business to replace or repair flood-ruined merchandise free of charge or at big discounts. Among the firms helping out: drugmakers Eli Lilly, McKesson & Robbins, Bristol-Myers, Johnson & Johnson, food processors Birds-Eye, National Biscuit Co., Pepsi-Cola, cameramakers Eastman Kodak, Agfa, Bell & Howell...
...number of English, French, and Italian films imported into this country in the last few years has been so great that it is easy to forget anyone else in Europe is making any pictures at all. But the few Swedish movies that have trickled in the great flood prove that the big three don't have the same monopoly over quality which they seem to possess over quantity. Such films as Torment and The Great Adventure reveal the Swedes as masters of photographic technique with a special flair for subtle psychological themes...
...wake of the recent disastrous floods in New England, Connecticut's Governor Abraham A. Ribicoff loudly denounced as "ghoulish" reported attempts to lure hard-hit industries to the flood-free South. Actually, no industries have left the state as a result of the floods. But his suspicions were understandable. With industry spending a record $27.3 billion on expansion this year, almost every state, county and city in the nation is hungrily trying to lure new industries. Says Victor Roterus, area development chief for the U.S. Commerce Department: "Competition to get new industry has never been rougher...