Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the new rules of admission, which have been expanded and liberalized to meet the unprecedented flood of candidates, many war veterans have been given special privileges, such as the waiving of college degrees, which are customarily required for entrance...
From here on in, things develop into a kind of actors' field day, with alternations of slapstick and high comedy, carefully understated emotion, and plain-&-simple bathos. Before he is through, Director Victor Fleming (Gone With the Wind) manages to lug in almost everything except a flood, a fire, an Indian massacre and a trained collie. But the dialogue somehow holds up under the strain, and there are a few wonderful sequences: Joan Blondell as the life of a rowdy party; Gable on a supercilious tour through a farmhouse; Gable and Garson engaged in a hen hunt. Adaptable Cinemactress...
...Cinemactress Janet Blair, who is pretty and Spar-slim in a seagoing blouse and skirt. The upshot of the whole thing is predictable until Tar Sid Caesar, a product of Yonkers and the City of New York, lets loose with the most overwhelming spate of gobbledygook since the Johnstown Flood. He may possibly have caught the act of another fast doubletalker named Danny Kaye, but his scrambled-eggs number is fine, his smiling pilot still better. Hail, Caesar...
...consumers used 48% more power for 21% less money than the average U.S. consumer (1.85? per kwh. v. the national average of 3.47?), thanks to the fact that TVA can spread its operating costs over more projects. Example: dam building can be charged off to malaria and flood control, etc., instead of power production...
...virtually completed its flood control and navigation projects in 1945. It closed the mile-and-a-half-long Kentucky Dam near the mouth of the Tennessee River and 480-ft.-high Fontana Dam on he Little Tennessee. With these and the 24 other dams in the system, TVA now has a navigation channel on the Tennessee some 650 miles long; and 13,000,000 acre-feet of water storage space for flood control, navigation and power...