Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...retaining dikes (many feet above the surrounding terrain) back to its old course (TIME, July 3). Last week the Hwang Ho broke its dikes in a dozen places in Shantung and Honan Provinces, flipped out tentative feelers of yellow water. Like a wandering serpent, one mile-wide flood flailed ponderously across Honan Province. Where the old and new beds of the Hwang Ho fork, roily water slupped around the cities of Chengchow, Lanfeng and Kaifeng, drowning 1,000 working peasants at one gulp near the latter...
...Maguire family is keeping a detailed, secret record of Patricia's diet, medicines, treatment, with the thought that they may some day write a book about her. Their house has been deluged with the usual flood of letters (at one time 50 per mail), advice and offers of help from all sorts of people including a Hindu mystic who offered to cure her for ?150 as a first installment. Two people wanted to exhibit Patricia at the Century of Progress. One wanted to build a miniature hospital in the Hall of Science, offered $50 a week plus...
...Persian, he sells three-fourths of all Indian oil. In China U. S. companies do 65% of the business. Socony-Vacuum does the bulk of that. Texas Corp. is the only other U. S. company with important Eastern interests and they are relatively small. Last spring Russia started to flood China with kerosene. Prices were slashed 50%, the market demoralized. It was this Russian invasion, observers thought last week, that really forced the Jersey-Socony-Vacuum deal...
...safety. A stampede of 5,000, many clad in night clothes, fled from the lowlands. In the yard back of his house, Tom Casey, So, fell into a hole, could not pull himself out. The torrent surged over him, stilling his screams. Power lines were destroyed, houses canted. The flood poured into store basements, soaking tons of merchandise. The Market Street produce centre was buried in three feet of water. The City Auditorium, fire and police headquarters, the city jail were flooded. The floor of Union Station was covered six inches deep, a log came bumping into the waiting room...
...Mary Baker Eddy was the last of the philosophers. The intellectual flood departed, leaving behind it a rich and fruitful earth, but sweeping away the preeminence of the Brahmins. The God-fearing Bostonians who had listened piously to the great Unitarians and had contributed to the worthy from the stores laid up by their slave-trading, rum-running, bundling ancestors, were losing their grip. The day of the Copley-Plaza arrived, and with it cosmetics, and the knowledge that the world is large. Entertainment was a bit gayer, a bit grander, though never ostentatious. And every Back Bay Lass chosen...