Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nation's Attic. From the moment of foundation, the Smithsonian was overwhelmed by an embarrassing flood of "national treasures": stuffed animals, historical relics, antiques, paintings, statues. Most had little to do with the "diffusion of knowledge...
...admission on the part of the University that it is no longer capable of providing quarters for all of its students. Every trick in the bag, including the re-classification of every room in the Houses, has been used in an effort to house the human torrent that will flood over Harvard next month...
...took up its rule. If the three-man Price Decontrol Board did nothing before August 21, price ceilings would go back on grain, meat, dairy products, cottonseed and soybeans. When the doors opened into the high-ceilinged marble of the Senate Caucus Room for the first public hearing, a flood of businessmen flowed through. Most of them argued that it would be economic folly to sit tight, i.e., let ceilings go back...
Under radio's hard, commercial breast beats a heart of gold. Listeners catch a glimpse of it in educational programs, in crises like the Ohio River flood of 1937, in more localized incidents like the epidemic in Minneapolis. There last week some 290 children were down with polio, the worst epidemic in the city's history. Thousands of others, kept indoors to escape infection, were driving anxious mothers out of their wits...
O.P.A. or no O.P.A., the consumer will be doing the right thing by himself and his fellows by out waiting those who stop the flood of production from irrigating the country's dry economy. If you wait long enough the dam will have to overflow. If you have a choice, do not buy. More and better will be had for less within a year. Even the N.A.M. says...