Word: flooded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Canada-born Lawrence Earl is a good storyteller (Yangtze Incident, TIME, July 23. 1951) with a weakness for pretty prose. To Earl, a woman's waist is a "sweet, inward curve," and a hunk of driftwood can be "ductile to the heaving flood." So when Earl ran into an African crocodile-hunter named Bryan Herbert Dempster, he noted that 28-year-old Hunter Dempster had a "hard challenge in his bright, sapphire eyes [that] had come of something more peremptory than time." But Author Earl picked up a good story...
...meant by his new policy of partnership between the Federal Government and local public or private utility companies. Into Congress went two bills authorizing a deal between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the city of Eugene, Ore. (pop. 36,000) to build a $34.5 million power and flood-control project on the state's McKenzie River. For its share, the Government plans to build a $23 million flood-control dam on the McKenzie. In turn, Eugene's city-owned power company will spend $10.5 million on a powerhouse at the dam site and a smaller reregulating...
Benefits to Eugene from the plan: more power for the local company and the first real flood-control system for the swift-flowing McKenzie River. Benefits to the Government: a chance to provide both power and flood control for an important section of the U.S. without footing the entire bill...
...danger of a loss like the reversal suffered in China when Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government fell. Although the U.S. was sending him supplies of arms, Chiang was unable to hold control of his troops long enough to make a good try at stopping the Red flood. The difficulties that besieged the Chinese Nationalists are not completely parallel to those in Indo-China, but American expectation that military aid will solve the problem is the same...
...another front, the storm clouds over Godfrey were dissolved in a flood of financial sunshine. CBS reported that the programs relinquished by Godfrey's long time sponsor Chesterfield cigarettes had all been bought up by four other advertisers: Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. (Scotch tape), Toni Co., Pillsbury Mills and Frigidaire...