Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Eisenhower is a man who likes to see for himself. Last week, as reports of mounting flood damage poured into his vacation headquarters in Denver, Ike made a quick decision: to fly to the Northeast, inspect, confer with the governors of the flood-stricken states, decide on the Federal Government's best courses of action. He had a long-standing appointment in the East, at the American Bar Association's meeting in Philadelphia (see above), and the inspection trip pushed his flight schedule forward half a day. At dusk one day last week. Ike boarded the Columbine...
Next morning Ike was up early, peering from his window for glimpses of the flood damage. An Air Force steward put an enormous breakfast tray in front of him (orange juice, cantaloupe, filet mignon, mashed potatoes, Melba toast and coffee), but Ike, preoccupied with the tragedy below, merely toyed with his meal. As the Columbine cruised slowly over Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, low cloud formations closed in, and Ike got only occasional views of the flooded areas. Allentown, Pa. floated underneath, between cloud drifts, looking untouched by the flood. Over Connecticut, the clouds opened up long enough...
Millions for Relief. The flood, as the President learned, was the most damaging in U.S. history, with property losses estimated conservatively at $1.6 billion. Back in Washington that afternoon, Eisenhower summoned officials to plan a relief program. For the moment, he authorized expenditures of available relief funds of $100 million, rehabilitation loans of $1 billion for flood-ravaged defense plants and small businesses. Meanwhile, other Government agencies were swiftly mustering all their resources for flood relief, and a stream of Army engineers, Public Health Service doctors, nurses and drugs, Agriculture Department food surpluses, GSA and Army cots and blankets...
After a night in Washington, Ike flew to his appointment with the lawyers in Philadelphia, returned to the capital to make the Government's flood-relief program official, and to pick up the First Lady and a guest¶ U.S. Ambassador to Britain Winthrop Aldrich. Back in Denver 5½ hours later, Mamie was the first off the Columbine, headed straight for her mother, Mrs. Elivera Doud, at the airport. "Hi, Mommy," she grinned. "It's sure good to be home." From the airport crowd came an inquisitive voice: "What do you plan to do on your vacation...
...approach often displayed. When businessmen and crooked politicians were under fire, comment on the Fifth Amendment in the law reviews and periodicals read by the intelligentsia was very hostile. Since the amendment has come to be invoked by intellectuals in the last few years, there has been a flood of highly sympathetic comment in the same publications...