Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week when USFET Commander General Joseph T. McNarney told his press conference that "discipline has tightened up considerably," the streams of unsavory stories from U.S.-occupied Europe remained at flood. Births in the U.S. zone were 30% illegitimate. Rowdy G.I. drunkenness forced German families to stay home after dark whenever a liquor ration was issued. Green troops, hell-bent for pleasure and to hell with the brass, found that no orders applied after retreat. Some of their officers were as bad, or worse. Items...
...till then, the 45 men in the expedition had endured unbelievably tough conditions in their 3,000-mile trek. Frequently the mercury dropped way out of sight (coldest day: 52° below zero). The ten snowmobiles floundered through miles of man-swallowing swamps; crossed ice-choked rivers in spring flood, like the Fort Nelson, on rafts; gingerly pushed their way across great chasms on improvised timber bridges...
With Smoke & Flame. Two minutes later, at 2:13, a small orange flame licked the base of the rocket. With a throbbing roar, the giant main charge took light. A flood of flame submerged the launching platform. Slowly the rocket rose, so slowly and lazily at first that it seemed to be suspended by an invisible chain. It picked up speed, roared higher & higher, trailing a 60-ft. plume of brilliant flame. Up, up it climbed, its roar diminishing with distance, its glare contracting until it looked like a bright orange star. Then it vanished, leaving a thin trail...
...Also signed bills to: 1) give veterans first call of war surpluses of s mall trucks, typewriters, tractors, plows and other selected, Government-owned items; and 2) appropriate $330 million for Army flood control and waterway projects...
...anti-inflationary factors are also at work. Pipelines to the market are filling up. Once the assembly lines are ready, goods will flood the markets, just as war material at last began to pour out in the fall of 1943. Production, more than anything else, will check runaway prices. And the good sense of the U.S. people, sometimes overlooked by paternal busybodies in Washington, could help. Public anxiety about OPA was itself a sign of public understanding...