Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evanston meeting was important news: the story of organized Christianity coping with a troubled world. Some 3,000 reporters applied for accreditation to the meeting. Reluctantly, the council cut the list of accredited correspondents and photographers down to 600, representing 36 countries. Warned by the flood of applications for press passes, the council was prepared to give more than casual help to reporters...
Watching from his island stronghold of Formosa, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek appealed in the name of humanity to "all Chinese," whatever their political persuasion, and to all "foreign friends" for flood and famine relief to save the mainland from disaster. He did more: he sent some of his own transport aircraft to drop 60 tons of rice over the worst-hit mainland provinces. The generalissimo did all this despite the cluck-clucking of the U.S. State Department that such assistance ought not to be rendered to enemy regimes. In so doing, Chiang, a practicing Christian, showed more magnanimity, good sense...
...Units of the Eighth Army's 37th Preventive Medicine Group left Korea to supply skilled manpower in flood areas. tj The U.S. Army rustled up 250,000 Ibs. of powdered milk in Japan...
...combine of four private power companies) a preliminary go-ahead on dams at Bruce's Eddy and Penny Cliffs (combined capacity: 532,000 kw.; estimated cost: $320,351,000). In keeping with the Administration's partnership policy (TIME, July 26), the Federal Government may share flood-control costs...
While China suffered its worst floods in a century (TIME, Aug. 16), its satellite, Tibet, was suffering too. At the monastic trade center of Shigatse (pop. 20,000), second-biggest city in Tibet, midsummer torrents had turned the Nyang Chu River into a foaming cataract. Lake Takri Tsoma overflowed and a wall of water swept into Shigatse (altitude: 12,800 ft.). flooding shrines and drowning sacred statues. The flood undermined the ancient Palace of the Western Paradise, official residence of the 16-year-old Panchen Lama, whom 3,000,000 Tibetans accept as a spiritual reincarnation of the Buddha...