Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When it was not flood, it was drought. In the '30s, under scorching, cloudless skies, the fickle river had dwindled while crops withered and some 774,000 people fled the Valley's Dust Bowl...
Last week, Army engineers started on Cherry Creek Dam, near Denver. Flood walls are being pushed up to make a levee system from Sioux City to Big Muddy's mouth above St. Louis. Soon the bulldozer battalions will move in on one of the biggest jobs of all-the huge dam and 200-mile-long lake at Garrison, N.D. Kanopolis Dam on the Smoky Hill, Kortes
...shipbuilder for the United Nations the U.S. Maritime Commission spent $15 billion in four years. From the shipyards came bottoms aplenty and in time In their wake last week came a flood of charges-reports about how the job was done...
...first inning deluge broadened into a respectable flood when the Terriers picked up two runs in the second, five in the fifth, and a final three in the sixth...
...this ad in the Tulsa Tribune last week a merchant angrily said his say against the flood of rising food prices in the U.S. While Congress still wrangled over OPA (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most manufacturers held the line on prices, worried lest a sudden boost bring back OPA with a rush. But food was something else again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gravely reported that its food index had jumped 16.1 points last week alone. And with commodity prices rising all along the line, chances were that food would continue to rise...