Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan as being "sweet . . . sweet and sad," and that was how he painted it. For him the canyon-like streets flowed with pretty girls and hurrying men-a warm swirl of humanity that his quick brush (trained for newspaper illustration in the days before news photography), caught in full flood. At night he painted Manhattan's vast, far sparkle, and did it tenderly enough to make onlookers sense the million lives behind the million lights...
Back in 1939, unable to sell their higher-priced ($15.75 a dozen and up) output of 100 dozen a week, they desperately turned to making a skirt that would retail for $1. A flood of orders, amounting to 700 dozen on one peak day, showed what could be done on high-volume output with low profit per unit...
...since the 1913 flood had Dayton been so excited. One day last week, word spread that big trouble was brewing on the picket lines at the Univis Lens Co. Some 7,500 Daytonians turned out to watch. They saw 160 policemen move in, pour tear gas into a yelling union mob. A savage, three-month-old strike in which heads had been bloodied, stink bombs tossed at non-strikers, ribs prodded by police billies, had reached its climax...
...ming!" (Save life! Save life!). Pale lightning flickered and thunderclaps split the sky as men, women & children labored with spade, hoe and hands to pile even higher the earthen ramparts of the river dikes. Downriver, other watchmen, gongs in hand, their silhouettes reflected by torchlight, anxiously measured the rising flood crest. Then they, too, beat their booming summons in the night...
...week's end the Sox had won 43 of their last 60 games. The experts could think of nothing except fire or flood (or maybe a slump) that would keep them out of the World Series. The tipoff on Red Sox power and depth: when their batting star, Ted Williams, was benched recently with a bad back, the club won 13 out of 15 games. Said Joe McCarthy last week, with the air of a man saying all there was to say, '.'You got to lose some ball games during a season and we happened to lose...