Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Torrents poured in the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Down went the flood waters of Cherry Creek to Denver. Down went swollen Fountain Creek at Colorado Springs, rolling eight feet deep in the residential section, drowning a man and woman on the roof of their sedan. The floods spread to Colorado's Sugar Bowl, rushed into Nebraska by way of the South Platte and Republican Rivers. The hamlets of Max and Parks vanished entirely. At McCook, home of Senator Norris, the Pastime Amusement Park slipped into the Republican River, grown two miles wide. The power station was demolished...
...million lean blackamoors. On this British territory's northern frontier is one of the world's richest copper mines, famed Roan Antelope, an amazing furrow of ore 200 ft. wide, 10 miles long, 3,000 ft. deep at the centre. Roan and its companion mine Mufulira could flood the world's copper market, if that should be the desire of Board Chairman Alfred Chester Beatty, onetime partner of Herbert Hoover. To the world's other coppermen Roan Antelope is a fabulous nightmare...
...national park purposes," one of a few acres, the other 30 ft. by 50 ft. For the more minuscule parcel of land TVA paid $150 (compared to $4 or $5 paid by Aluminum Co. for similar land nearby) but it was worth it, for Aluminum Co. could not legally flood two "national parks...
PREPARE FOR FLOOD OF PROTESTS FROM OVERSEAS VETERANS WHO WILL RESENT USE OF TITLE "LEGIONARY" WITH NAME OF JAMES E. VAN ZANDT UNDER CUT P. 14 MAY 20 ISSUE TIME. AS NATIONAL COMMANDER VETERANS FOREIGN WARS, VAN ZANDT REPRESENTS NATION'S OVERSEAS VETERANS. TITLE "LEGIONARY" APPROPRIATE FOR BELGRANO BUT EXTREMELY MISLEADING AND ERRONEOUS FOR PROPER IDENTIFICATION OF VAN ZANDT...
...midst of this dizzying flood faithful Noahs will observe at least one peak, and landing on it may find more solid ground...