Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...India. India may survive this schism; Pakistan cannot. Almost its whole middle class, which was Hindu, has fled. The literacy rate, never higher than 9%, is now less than half that. Pakistan's Government is not able to support more refugees. It is trying to shut off the flood. Moslems who hear that Pakistan will not let them enter are embittered and terrified...
...Bonanza. The men who made and kept the great Comstock fortunes were good gamblers with a certain kind of brains. Two of them, John W. Mackay and James G. Fair, had been pick-&-shovel men in their time. The two others, James C. Flood and William S. O'Brien, never -ot closer to mining than the floor of San Francisco's Mining Exchange. Mackay and Fair, who came to the top in the rough & tumble life of Virginia City, get more than two-thirds of Author Lewis' space...
...teams. During the A and B squad pass offense drills that followed, Chuck Roche and Jim Noonan did most of the tossing, and occasionally backfield coach Bob Margarita showed the receivers how it's done with some neat completions. Punting under pressure, and signal drills under the flood lights completed the workout...
Next day the market was thrown out of gear with a resounding crash. A flood of selling started when the market opened. By the close, corn and soy beans were down 8?, their daily legal limit; wheat fell 6 to 8¾?. Even wholesale meat prices slipped, along with livestock prices. One thing that had finally frightened the speculator into panicky selling was a decision by the Federal Government to cut purchases of grains for November export by some 50 million bu., 42% below the July-October level. And traders who had expected frost to nip the short corn crop...
Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin's job at Southport was to convince the T.U.C. that Britain was not subservient to the U.S. He did it, sweeping the delegates with him on a flood of vigorous, if ungrammatical, oratory. "Eee, Ernie gave 'em something, didn't he?" grinned delegates...