Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...squiggles which he made precipitated, not an immediate downpour of cash upon the parched populace, but a flood of mimeographed announcements by his spending agencies in Washington, vying with each other to do their heavenly duty...
...compensated marks allowed for buying Brazilian cotton. She then pulled an economic trick by buying 300,000 bags of quota-free cocoa with compensated marks. Brazil can easily sell her cocoa in a free world market for good currency. By this "purchase" Germany 1) tried to flood Brazil with compensated marks so that Brazil would be forced to buy more German merchandise, 2) tried to produce a temporary world scarcity, thereby raising the price of cocoa so that she could profitably resell her cocoa holdings to other nations for much-needed gold...
...years the Olympian, of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad, made the run from Chicago to Seattle and Tacoma without losing a passenger. Then, fortnight ago, it plunged through a flood-weakened trestle over raging Custer Creek in Montana, carrying 47 persons to death. Last week the jinx again perched on the westbound Olympian's cowcatcher. Steaming over the same high Montana plain, the train passed the scene of the Custer Creek tragedy, pulled up at Miles City for orders, then raced on for Harlowton. At the way station Ingobar, 110 miles by train west of Custer...
...Japanese, who had been pushing along the railroad toward Chengchow, hoping to make it a base for their southerly drive to Hankow, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's provisional capital, the flood was a severe setback. Tokyo papers at once accused the devilish Chinese of having sprung the dikes as a strategic military move. "An atrocity," cried Damei, "by barbarian Chinese. . . . The Japanese are making frantic efforts to check the flow and to rescue the Chinese caught in the flood area, at the same time repulsing Chinese attacks...
...half a million lives would be a monstrous pyrrhic victory. Besides, dike-cutting is the blackest of Chinese crimes, and the Chinese Army would hardly risk universal censure for slight tactical gains. But this apparent innocence did not keep the Chinese from countercharging that Japanese had caused the flood by shelling and bombing the dikes near Kaifeng...