Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mediterranean is being kept full of warboats to perpetuate the scare at least until the Chancellor of the Exchequer gets through the House of Commons the great program of $1,500,000,000 for increasing British armaments which last week had London's stock market in the flood tide of a Munitions Boom...
...severe headache, a sharp pain in his chest. He turned to one nurse, saw her drop unconscious to the floor. Just then a second nurse also dropped unconscious. The third nurse reeled to the double doors of the tightly closed obstetrical room, pushed them open, released a flood of carbon monoxide gas developed by a defective, gas-heated sterilizer. Refreshed, Dr. Halpin completed the delivery of a healthy...
...flood of Government money has yet to uncover a genius. Washington authorities hail as their own particular discovery bearded Frank Mechau Jr., 32, of Glenwood Springs, Colo., whose stirring panel Dangers of the Mail, was chosen for the new Post Office Department Building. Exulted Edward Bruce...
...price of farm products to a point that would cause consumers to pay more proportionally for food than in pre-War days, to prohibit the grazing of cattle on land taken out of crop production, were all voted down with ease. One important amendment to the bill was adopted: flood control was added to the things on which Secretary Wallace could spend money, thus opening up to him vast opportunities to alter the natural drainage system of the U. S. The Court. Best oratorical efforts of the debate were devoted to the Supreme Court. In what amounted to the first...
...England's worst depression, beginning five years ago, had brought a second General Strike and had upped the Fascist National Volunteers to the most powerful armed body in the State. An impotent Labor Government, despairingly voted into office, has just been swept out again on a flood of financial panic and bewildered rioting, and the National Volunteers have hoisted Dictator Frank Hillier into the saddle. At the head of a pasteboard National State Party, with Parliament dissolved and a yes-man Council as his catspaws, Hillier rules England. Royalty has apparently vanished at last. There is no opposition. There...