Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco, also out of the running, resorted to drafting its school children to flood the mails with come-on postcards...
Characteristically, the Russians had blacked out news from their zone in occupied Germany. The inevitable result was a flood of rumors: the Red Army was still heavily massed, Soviet looters were stripping German industry and agriculture. But when five U.S. reporters were finally permitted to tour the zone last week, the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill wondered "what the secrecy has been about...
Winston Churchill, Man of 1940, had somehow missed the flood. He had led his country to victory, then, for all his gallant stubbornness in the face of wartime disaster, suffered a humiliating political defeat...
...advertising: the Container Corp. of America's series by foreign artists (TIME, Apr. 30). The book contains a few interesting pictures (some of them badly reproduced), such as Grant Wood's tufted Fall Plowing, to represent Iowa; John Steuart Curry's praying Negroes in a flood, which Curry called The Mississippi and the book labels Tennessee; John Falter's End of School (Pennsylvania); Dong Kingman's watercolor, Morning in New Orleans; Charles Burchfield's The Great Elm (New York). George Grosz's Tobacco Road looked as if he had seen the stage play...
...observation the House was in agreement: NLRB was still without the prospect of strike-vote funds this week. But, rising in wrath, the House restored more than $300 million of the funds its committee had knocked out, including all the veterans' appropriations and all but $6 million of flood-control funds...