Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This CVA, as the Administration sees it, would take over the power-and-flood-control operations of a fistful of such federal agencies as the Army Engineers and the Department of the Interior. It would coordinate these activities into a pattern that is now significantly lacking in the Columbia Valley; it would replace the timid splinter programs of the federal bureaus with a unified plan on the order of the one that worked so well in the Tennessee Valley...
...Line. In 1940, Witness Philbrick, who had been getting a flood of Communist-front literature in the course of his church work, helped to organize a group known as the Cambridge Youth Council. Almost at once, he spotted Reds in the fold. He took his suspicions to the FBI, was asked to stick with it and keep the FBI informed. Two years later, he was a member of the Young Communist League, from 1944 on a member of the Communist Party. The FBI paid his expenses: party dues, the cost of renting a recording machine on which he dictated some...
...arkitect whose coping with the Flood...
Head-Scratching. As the trial lumbered on, the ideological gobbledygook of communism poured in full flood into the ears of Court and jury. Browder, among other things, was accused of the Communist sin of "tailism." "It sounds like some kind of special jargon," the judge said plaintively, and pleaded for an explanation of terms...
...continue to receive a flood of approving communications from all over the world," Shapley said. He also pointed to the fact that a number of cities and organizations have sent conference delegates offers for tours, receptions, and speaking engagements...