Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as the massive Columbia shouldered against its banks, surged muddily over low-lying farmland and gnawed at its retaining dikes, the people of Vanport got a warning: the Columbia was 15 feet above flood level, highest in 54 years. It might overflow. One afternoon it did. The railroad fill protecting Vanport broke suddenly, and Vanport's jerry-built structures crumpled like matchwood under 15 feet of muddy water. In the wild scramble for safety, wives were separated from husbands, mothers from children. Bewildered and shocked, survivors told of seeing "hundreds" trapped by splintering walls or crushed...
This week, above the muddy water, the sun shone warm and bright. In the mountains warm rain and melting snows poured fresh torrents into the valleys, sent new flood peaks surging down on the Columbia's lowlands. Nearly 48,000 were homeless in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho. The Red Cross estimated that it would be two months before those whose homes had not been destroyed could return. Over all the stricken Northwest, 26 had lost their lives...
...York is the fountain-spout of U.S. culture, the intellectual gateway to England and Europe, a pump from which ideas-both good & bad-flood out over the world. It is a citadel of opera and art; its 32 legitimate theaters are the heartland of the U.S. stage. Its rich and haughty cosmetic queens determine the type of cream with which millions of women grease their faces before retiring; its beauty salons force them to cut their hair. Its Hattie Carnegies and Nettie Rosensteins dictate fashion; its $2 billion garment industry makes 80% of all U.S. women's dresses...
...Senate last week considered the biggest rivers and harbors bill of all time. In the bill were many sound, far-reaching (and long-deferred) projects for flood control, harbor improvement and power development. In it also were many Senators' pets: long-deferred local-improvement schemes...
Yesterday's harried "freethinkers" produced a flood of radical literature, most of which is now as dull and dead as the social grievances it attacked. Of the countless contributors to this literature, Thorstein Veblen is one of the very few who does not give the impression of being just a cut off the old red jelly...