Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill Mauldin's sardonic, unshaven Willie once summed up his attitude to the reckless flood of U.S. decorations in World War II. Said Willie: "Just gimme a coupla aspirin. I already got a Purple Heart...
Applications for admission to the College next fall are pouring in upon the Admission Office in a greater flood than ever before, Richard M. Gummere, chairman of the Committee on Admission, announced last week...
...record time for this event. Even if both boats stayed afloat (both sank in a memorable race in 1912), river officials were afraid that the soggy Thames banks might collapse, dumping the crowds in. But Cambridge, using its weight advantage of 8 Ibs. per man in bucking the flood waters, moved ahead in the first dozen strokes with a beat of 37 a minute, stayed ahead the whole way, won by ten lengths. At the finish the Oxonians looked done in, the Cantabrigians fresh enough for another race. Time: 23 min. 1 sec.-slowest since...
...tropics will pace President Miguel Aleman's whopping $300,000,000 land development program. In the biggest reclamation project ever undertaken in Mexico, more than 17,000 square miles of steaming, flood-soaked and disease-ridden jungle in the states of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca will be turned to agricultural and industrial profit...
...this will take time (about six years) and money ($200,000,000). But Orive de Alba knows that Papaloapan can do much for Mexico. To invite industry to the valley, more power than all Mexico now produces will flow from the four dams. Reclaimed swamps, flood lands and arid areas soon to be irrigated will be opened to farmers. The region's present population of 170,000 poor bush-grubbers, Engineer de Alba hopes, will grow to more than 600,000 when his work is done...