Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...start of highway construction took a few hundred jobless. Federal flood-control work on the Missouri took 300 more. To supply crushed rock for the river and highway work two new quarries were opened, four old ones reopened. That took another 300. Gravel pits resumed operations with truckers getting contracts. A small packing plant and Refrigerator Express Co. leased part of the vacant Burlington shops. Payrolls were spent in Plattsmouth and merchants took on help...
...pension trust fund. Other letters declared that $18,000,000 had been spent unnecessarily in rebuilding the Cuban Cap itol, that the whole Machado Cabinet had big graft in construction of Havana's waterworks. Finally Inquisitor Pecora himself dammed up the flood of epistolary candor, suppressed one paragraph and a whole memorandum because ''it might lead to acts of violence in Cuba...
...both men and was particularly lenient with Dr. O'Brien. The rules on blocked kicks are not clear in the records, says the head man, and thus O'Brien may be excused a lapse of memory. We'd like to add our little bit of comment to the flood that has already appeared even thought it is a bit late. The trouble seems to lie in the rules committee and not with the officials, and there the blame should rest and the responsibility assumed. For our part, 'we extend our sincere sympathy to the harassed referee, who never is allowed...
...hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the University of the State of New York has caused the more articulate notables in the educational world to emit loud and extravagant hosannas of praise. The very fact that this flood of verbiage is so completely unrestrained, however, indicates not that the educators are filled with a supreme and justified self-confidence, but that they are on the defensive against attacks made upon them and their system...
...problems," droned Viscount Cecil of Chelwood, chairman of Britain's delegation, "is the flood of unwanted money that is pouring into our banks. These funds, deposited in the main by U. S. investors, are subject to withdrawal at 24-hour notice and are of little or no value, though it has not yet been discovered how to get rid of them...