Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What About the Dam? As the ponderous curtains of rain swept on through the darkness, San Antonio waited nervously for something worse. Would the Olmos Dam hold? It had been built after the disastrous flash flood of 1921, had been a subject of controversy ever since. One group of engineers had predicted that it would break under severe pressure, send a wall of water roaring through the city. [Now, as a lake backed up behind the 1 ,900-ft. concrete barrier, an inevitable rumor spread: "The darn is going to break...
...seemed as though the prize jury (a museum director, a critic, an artist) liked a little of everything. The prizewinners included Abraham Rattner's Picassoesque, blazing red and yellow Place of Darkness; Gregorio Prestopino's rock-solid study of a train stalled in a flood; Sydney Laufman's impressionistic Road in the Woods, which looked as though it had been daubed on with dirty cotton; Gladys Rockmore Davis' sugar-sweet ballet painting, Pink Tights. Somehow the jury agreed that an almost unknown Californian named Boris Deutsch deserved the $2,500 first prize-for his ragged, muddy...
...possible. Won't you please print the answer to the puzzle?" What baffled her was a reprint of Charles Addams' New Yorker cartoon showing one set of ski tracks passing both sides of a tree (see cut). From Heute's literal-minded German readers came a flood of confident answers. Samples...
Industrial leaders have barraged Washington with the claim that prices must rise to stimulate a "flood of production." This is a mere smokescreen of words thrown out by the highly-geared propaganda agency of the National Association of Manufacturers. Higher prices will not cure the labor and material shortages that set the limits of production today. Only reconversion time and labor-management peace can bring greater production. It was not the OPA, nor is it the Wagner Act, which is in need of revision. The revision of statutes most necessary now are revisions based on the recognition that millions...
...economy slash by Harry Truman had made the ralliers taste blood. In addition to $202 million left over from wartime grants, a generous 79th Congress had dumped $309 million more into a Federal kitty for the improvement of rivers, harbors and flood control. The President, during his thrifty August mood, had daringly told the Treasury not to pay out more than $185 million during this election year...