Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...toughest three-week distribution scrambles that Pearson has had was during the Fraser Valley flood of 1948. All eastern rail and road connections to Vancouver were cut off. Pearson was on the phone almost constantly, directing shipments of TIME off planes to trains, and off stranded trains back to planes as bridges went out, flights were canceled. Says he: "It was an hour-to-hour guessing game of where to shuffle the load next...
...capacity of 533,000 kw. on the Clearwater River in northwestern Idaho. In line with the Administration's proposal that such big projects should get the help of the Federal Government when needed, the companies will ask the U.S. to pay such costs as highway construction and flood control...
...hydrogen bomb tests, he told the House of Commons, "increase the chances of world peace more than the chances of war." In one of his most moving performances, the soon-to-retire, old (79) Prime Minister stepped forward to dam a flood of justified concern and political alarm which had hit Britain in the wake of the U.S. thermonuclear experiments...
...charge of lithium-six deuteride is ignited is almost anyone's guess. A great many reactions are possible, and many must surely take place (see diagram). The main reaction is the combination of L16 with H², forming two atoms of helium (He4) and giving off a flood of energy. Since helium is the final product, the well-designed bomb should produce as much of it as possible, but side reactions are likely. Neutrons from the reacting plutonium are apt to hit lithium atoms, turning them into helium and tritium (H³). Tritium may hit deuterium, yielding helium...
Ahead lies the possibility of eventual ruin for the entire Plan and subsequent return of dormitory standards at best. By 1958 the first of a flood of post-depression babies will begin applying for admission, and many feel that if the College is to maintain its national character it will have to admit more than the present 4,500. Under such an enslaught the House system, already badly in need of additional space, could conceivably collapse...