Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...piece out Britons' starvation diet of reading matter, the Board of Trade had agreed to let in magazines from within the Empire. Through that breach in the cultural ramparts, a trashy flood poured in from Canada. Bookstalls unloaded over 6,000,000 comics, westerns, detectives and sex pulps. The comics, full of rocket men and bosomy girls, were the biggest surprise of all; British children's comics are mainly animal or flower stories. London street hawkers took in up to ?15 a day. Customers paid up to 25. 6d. (50?) for such gems as Vivid Confessions...
Last week the flood was subsiding. A new Board of Trade ruling required the invaders to take out import licenses. The market had once more been made safe for the British publishers, even if they couldn't supply...
Stockbrokers came back from their Labor Day weekend with nothing to worry about, apparently, but their golf scores. There had been no new shocks, international or otherwise, to the queasy stockmarket. Then it happened. At first, orders to sell were only a trickle. Soon they became a flood. More & more holdings were dumped, until nearly every stock on New York's big board was skidding...
...told radio officials . . . my application for broadcasting time . . . was made solely from my desire to counteract, to some extent, the veritable flood of religious propaganda to which, for the last 15 years, the American people have been subjected...
...flood of Rooseveltiana, already building the F.D.R. legend (TIME, Aug. 19), hit the nation's magazines...