Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only ones to feel immediately the sudden huge flood of purchasing power were low-priced suit-&-cloaksters, department stores. Apparently about half the Veterans deposited all their bonds intact, many intending to collect 3% interest until 1945. Others, accompanied by watchful wives, cashed their bonds, opened savings accounts...
...Forty-seven years after the flood which cost 2,200 lives and demolished the city, a similar flood taking an even greater toll of property ravaged the city of (1 Pittsburgh, Pa., 2 Hartford, Conn., 3 Johnstown, Pa., 4 Harper's Ferry, Md., 5 Cincinnati, Ohio...
...Charles Hardy Eastwood, Newark water equipment manufacturer, declared that he sends employes into every flood-afflicted area, foots the bill himself, considers it good advertising. During the severe floods last spring, Eastwood had men with portable chlorinators in 14 States. Where they worked there were no cases of disease attributable to polluted water...
...Omnibus Flood Control bill, authorizing $320,000,000 for reservoirs, dams, levees and spillways throughout the land; and a complementary $272,000,000 bill, sponsored by Louisiana's Overton, for flood control in the lower Mississippi Valley. Bursting with political pork, the Omnibus bill was passed by the House four days before adjournment last August, filibustered to death in the Senate by Maryland's Tydings. Revived by the floods of last March, it was pared of its local favors by a stern economy order from President Roosevelt. Called by Senator Copeland "the first porkless water bill ever passed...
...sidewalk in front of Cleveland's Public Hall, when the preliminaries of the Republican National Convention got under way. For Republicans were in such a hurry last week that they overflowed Cleveland long before their convention began. More eager than animals to get aboard the Ark before the Flood, politicians came...