Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congratulated Sol Bloom (Dem. N. Y.) on his 70th birthday. Representative Bloom, awakened in the morning by a flood of singing telegrams, objected to the way the telegraph girls sang: "Happy Birthday, Mr. Bloo-oom," made them change it to "Happy Birthday, dear Solly." That sounded better, said Songwriter Bloom...
...this was child's play. Joanne had much bigger things in the back of her head and (partly written) in the back of her bureau drawer. For Joanne's 72-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eva Snapp, had been telling her stories of the Ohio River floods for years, and busy little Joanne had been jotting them down. Some time shortly after infancy, Joanne had decided to do a scenario based on grandma's flood experiences. Since then, it has been her life work...
Result was a scenario "unconsciously written" in the very form Hollywood scripters use for an "original screen treatment." Joanne called her script Joan of the Ark. It tells how an old lady (Aunt Sis) finds a baby afloat in a box during a flood, rescues it and brings it up. Cut to the child, a little girl, age 14, name Joan...
...Heard, in the Caribbean, how four days of pounding rain had sent northern California's Russian and Sacramento Rivers smashing down their valleys in a flash flood* that drowned four persons, damaged over $1,000,000 worth of property. Promptly the President approved a $130,000 emergency relief allocation...
...Country using flood waters for defense...