Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Waste paper baskets proved ineffective in stemming the cold shouldered flood as it ripped away ceilings and laid a slippery coat down Hollis stairs...
...percent of the President's budget is allocated to national defense, the Marshall plan, veterans' benefits, tax refunds, and interest on the national debt. Cuts here are both politically dangerous and detrimental to the security of the country. Social Security and welfare, highways, mail, radio regulation, atomic energy, flood control, reclamation, and the operation of Congress and the Courts, constitute another 16.1 percent. Cuts can be made here but only by sacrificing the long-run interest of the nation to the desire of the majority of Congress to carry a "good record" into the November elections. The remaining 2.7 percent...
...washing machines, about double prewar production. The automobile industry crowded its throttle; 4,794,000 cars and trucks rolled off the lines. It was a gain of 55% over 1946, and 34% above 1939's production. The U.S. production machine also had time to turn out a flood of knick-knacks-from bubble gum and atomic rings to a doormat that automatically scrubs shoes, rings the doorbell and turns on the porch light. The U.S. alone turned out well over 50% of the known industrial production of the world compared with 30% before...
Then came Wolfe's difficulties. As his thick flood of words rolled into his publishers' offices, there to be diked and channeled, it became clear that Wolfe would never develop any controlling ideas that could give esthetic unity or moral significance to his work...
...heavy was the flood? In the twelve months ended June 30, said Mehl, the dollar value of regulated commodity transactions rose to $33 billion, more than double the previous twelve-month period. Most of the trading was speculative, said Mehl. By the end of June, for example, 90.4% of Chicago corn futures accounts were speculative. Price changes, said Mehl, had been aggravated by many "weakly financed" traders. "Shorts are quickly forced to cover," while "longs are washed out by temporary reactions...