Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Completed the $520 million Rivers & Harbors authorization bill, passed the $772 million flood control authorization, and sent them both to the White House...
Archangel was having a flood and the train had to stop at a nearby village, where we transferred to a river steamer. There was a mile and a half of deep mud between the station and the dock, with no transportation. There were porters at the station, but they knew their own value and the prices they were asking were outrageous. To show brotherhood, my baggage was distributed by the discharged sailor, who took the heaviest piece himself along with all his own; and the trek began. It was cold and muddy and miserable, but the psychological atmosphere was warm...
...years which have elapsed since the earthquake. Like its pre-1906 buildings, most of its pre-1906 families have disappeared, although there are still Crockers and a sprinkling of Sutros and Spreckels around. The exclusive and monstrous Pacific Union Club, once the home of Bonanza King James Flood, is still a rendezvous of the wealthy, but Nob Hill is no longer the center of the social whirl. The center now is the Burlingame Country Club, outside of town...
...help to recapture the "good old days" when the Brothers' only comedy competition was Cal Coolidge. Chico, who triples as peanut-vendor, confidential agent and Minister of War in Groucho's parlor cabinet, shows the verve and talent for pantomime that has, in later productions, been drowned in a flood of dialogue and cute piano-peeking. Margaret Dumont, accused by Groucho of looking like an old tenement, is the perfect foil through bedroom to parlor to bedroom. If S.J. Perelman did not invent the gags there was some compensation in money-maker Leo McCarey's direction...
...Approved by standing vote a $900-million flood control project, despite opposition shouts of "pork barrel...