Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...each evening, until a normal 3 a.m., she keeps right on working-at parties. The only thing that can keep her away from a party given by Elsa Maxwell, Lady Mendl or Cobina Wright Sr. or Barbara Hutton Grant or Ouida Rathbone or Baron Rothschild is an earthquake, a flood, or possibly a runny nose. Her conversation is slick, spangled, witty, shot full of Colbyisms. Some of these are close to schoolgirlish, like "doll," meaning darling, for a man she likes; others are more stern, like her stock stopper to a conversation she thinks silly: "Well, how dull...
...Approved the billion-dollar postwar flood-control bill-after first making it plain that he still wanted separate creation of a Missouri Valley Authority...
...some point lost in the mists of metropolitan folklore, Parisians began to use André as a flood meter. When the Seine is low his feet are high above the water level, but, as the river rises, it covers him bit by bit. When his feet get wet, it is bad. When his knees get wet. it is serious. When his thighs get wet, it is dangerous. When his belt gets wet, Paris begins to be flooded. In 1910 André was nearly drowned: the water was up to his neck...
...unless more rains came, the flood crest would pass. The Seine would begin to drop down André's stony legs, and within a few weeks coal barges would again arrive. Said the Parisians: "The Zouave, being made of marble, cannot catch pneumonia or be unmanned. But we others, hein...
...came the flood of speeches (84 in all) and the confident prediction of N.A.M. itself, based on its survey of 2,000 industries engaged in reconversion planning along with their war work, that the jobs of reconversion and postwar employment are less fearsome, the closer they come. N.A.M. predicted that: 1) 95% of all U.S. industry could complete reconversion within eight weeks; 2) 76% of the manufacturers could reach peak production in that time; 3) postwar employment in manufacturing would be 30% higher than...