Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Strong Flood. Last week, after four rancorous ballots, Li won a clean victory. It had not been an amicable contest: at one point Li had withdrawn, charging that his supporters were being intimidated, had ordered a plane to take him to Peiping. But the Kuomintang high command had bethought itself; the Gimo had sent assurances that he stood for open competition. Scholarly Hu Shih, presiding over the Assembly that day, had reminded them: "The secret ballot is sufficient protection...
Beyond making the Wake a post-graduate venture, the editors are considering publishing "a few short novels" next year. A flood of material since the Cummings issue has turned up some excellent work, the editors say, including some pieces too long for inclusion in their magazine...
...Ordered Federal Works Administrator Philip Fleming to send surplus federal property to Ohio River flood victims...
...Four straight days of heavy rains brimmed over the Ohio River, drove 31,000 people from their homes, cost, seven lives. The flood was one of the highest in Ohio River history, but it was no disaster. Thanks to control dams, Cincinnati's flood was confined mostly to its downtown riverfront lowlands. Other river towns-Marietta and Pomeroy, Ohio, Wheeling and Parkersburg, W.Va.-weren't so lucky...
...billion dollar Flood Control Act signed by President Roosevelt in December, 1944, 400 million was carmarked for the Missouri River. Since all construction was to wait for the war's end, there was still a chance that MVA could be set up to do the administering. Murray brought his bill in to the new Congress in February, 1945, but there it was effectively snagged in a web of hostile committees. On the outside, opposition to MVA was sparked by private power companies, the coal industry, and conservative Mid Westerners fearful of what was termed "New Deal socialism...