Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...federal regulation that (except for thefts from hospitals and doctors) practically no legitimate drugs get to the addicts. But tons of narcotics are smuggled in, mostly from Italy, much by such Mafia leaders as Vito Genovese. The Treasury Department's 420-man Bureau of Narcotics cannot check the flood...
What worries Willy even more is the flood of refugees who pour daily into West Berlin, most of them ultimately to be flown out to the "mainland" of West Germany. Since the majority of the refugees are young, their flight is turning East Germany into a nation of oldsters; it is also creating a labor shortage in East Germany. Since 1949 more than 2,000,000 people have fled East Germany-more than three times the natural population increase. Says Willy Brandt: "When East Germans ask me what to do ... I tell them to stay as long as they...
...passengers in direct competition with commercial U.S. carriers. Last week a MATS plan to add ten new Douglas DC-8 jets to its fleet at a cost of $66 million ran into a turbulent stream of industry, Administration and congressional opposition. Complained Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel Flood of the House Appropriations Committee : "Congress has got to stop MATS from competing with private business...
Even such severe critics as Flood agree that MATS is a vital part of the U.S. defense network, readily recall how MATS, under William H. Tunner, then a major general and deputy commander for operations, performed with dramatic efficiency during the Berlin airlift, and in 1956 brought 6,409 Hungarian refugees to the U.S. in a matter of days. Their chief fear is that MATS, now commanded by Lieut. General Tunner. is getting farther and farther away from its combat-carrying function as it steps up military passenger and cargo business, which under established Government policy should go to commercial...
...while the lad he describes is no Penrod, neither is he Little Boy Beat. Jack Duluoz, the author's alter-Kerouac, is exuberantly profane and comfortably delinquent-a kind of city-bound Tom Sawyer who at one point seems ready to go rafting down New England's flood-swollen Merrimack River on a henhouse roof...