Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week nothing whatever was done about oil. It continued to flood into Fascist Italy from the Soviet Union, the U. S., the British Empire, The Netherlands, Venezuela, Rumania...
Christmas is house-cleaning time for booksellers. The publishers remit their flood of new titles while shelves are cleared, ledgers audited for the new year. Readers may now reconsider the past year's output, check what they have read, what they have missed, what they might give as presents. Following is a list designed to be helpful...
...Charlie Grant, with Vandy Lee and Vio Whitlock, is having a great time at Dartmouth throwing Sophomores into fountains and turning fire hoses into their letter slots to flood their rooms. He thinks Dartmouth has an amazing amount of school spirit and is altogether a swell college . . . ." --St. Albana News
...depositions but Finance Committee Chairman Bernard Edwin Hutchinson went in person to Sir Cyril's court. In his decision last week Sir Cyril seemed to have been particularly impressed by the evidence against Mr. Hutchinson. The British plaintiffs had described him as a "hard trader" who threatened to flood the market with Chrysler cars at cut-rate prices unless the stock-holders moderated their demands. During the negotiations Mr. Hutchinson was quoted as having snapped: "I am not going to buy what I can and will destroy...
...20th Century bootleggers made it a hideout. When he was a boy, Amos Kilgore Gordon of Parkersburg, W. Va. used to visit his grandfather's farm on Blennerhassett Island. He remembers swimming out into the river with his brother to collect driftwood logs washed down by the Johnstown Flood. When he grew up, he went to work for Standard Oil, is now vice president and treasurer of Standard of Louisiana. Last week Mr. Gordon bought up all the rest of Blennerhassett Island that his family did not own. The Federal Government, naturally, has never attempted to preserve...