Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harry Flood Byrd, Virginia's junior U. S. Senator, was not a candidate for his old job as Governor of the State in last week's Democratic primary. Nevertheless he found himself the major issue in a three-cornered campaign for that office. The candidates were: Norfolk's Joseph T. Deal, a onetime Representative, Louisa's W. Worth Smith Jr., a State Senator, and Tazewell's George Campbell Peery. Because Democrat Peery was favored by Senator Byrd, Messrs. Deal and Smith centred their fire on the "Byrd machine," lambasted the Senator's "boss rule...
...miles below, at Parker, Telephone Operator Nettie Driscoll snapped into action. Frantically she plugged the Denver exchange, got through to the police station. A flood was roaring into town, she cried; it was tremendous; it was headed down Cherry Creek toward Denver. "I haven't got time to answer any questions.'' she shouted. "I can hear the roar of the water and I'm getting out of here...
...midst of a flood of bad moving pictures which deinge Boston in the summer time, there are only a few entertainments that will attract any attention...
...hydroelectric capacity of 1,000,000 h.p. Because no market existed for so much power, modified specifications call for a 130-ft. dam costing $63,000,000. Also put on the public works program was a 9-ft. channel for the Upper Mississippi and a $22,700,000 flood control-irrigation project on the North Platte near Casper...
...flood of war floated the Ark of U. S. Steel Corp. high up on a figurative Mount Ararat where in three months time Steel breathed $97,000,000 worth of the pure air of profit. Never since has Steel reached any such altitude but the flood of 1929 boosted it to a lesser peak, a Mount Sinai of nearly $55,000,000. The far side of that mountain fell away, steeply, right down to the Red Sea. In two years Steel got to sea level, in three years to the bottom of the sea- $16,000,000 deep...