Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldiers Field was apparently unguarded throughout the night, but flood-lights were on at the wooden end of the stands, and there were lights under the concrete stands. All gates were securely locked...
...that future, he promised a program not unlike Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. It included more irrigation and flood control projects, expanded rural electrification and soil conservation, protection and development of forests, oil reserves, mineral resources. To build the West's power supply he promised new river projects on the Columbia and Missouri. To keep it all humming, he promised to appoint, "with great pleasure," a Secretary of the Interior from the West...
...jubilant Elsie Dick, reporting a flood of 1,152 letters in response to the first program, went busily ahead with plans for this week's lesson on the atom- a mystery show entitled The Case of the Tick-Tock Murder, starring Cinemactor Turhan...
This capsizing of the earth happens periodically, Brown believes. The last time it caused Noah's flood. One pole was then in the Sudan, and Noah and his family lived in temperate South Africa. "In the 600th year of Noah's life . . . were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened."* No geophysicist, Noah did not realize that the poles had shifted...
...Muny" has gone in the hole only twice in its history-once 30 years ago, when a flash flood washed away half the scenery and instruments on opening night, and once during the depression. Both times the backers were paid back within two years. One big reason is that their summer opera has become a family habit for St. Louisans-from grandma to the kids. Another reason-and perhaps a bigger one-is the quality of its performances. Even a foreign critic from Dallas recently admitted that St. Louis' Municipal Opera is to summer operetta companies "what the Metropolitan...