Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hardly more than a creek in summer, the Roer was now swollen by rain. The Germans increased the flood by blowing dams and opening sluice gates, until the shallow brown water in one place spread almost a mile across the plain. Lieut. General William ("Texas Bill") Simpson's Ninth Army inched painfully forward until it held a 20-mile stretch on the west bank. On his right, Courtney Hodges' First Army had to cross a smaller stream, the Inde, before it could come up to the Roer. The Germans fought like wild men for the Inde also. Driven...
From the bridgehead, the Third Ukrainian Army of brilliant, heavy-set Marshal Feodor I. Tolbukhin then began an offensive. Despite the constant drizzle and occasional snow, despite rivers and swamps and wide ditches, the Russians spread out on the plain like a Danube flood. Through the railroad network of southwest Hungary they swelled to within 21 miles of Lake Balaton, central Europe's largest, reached 72 miles from Austria's nearest frontier. Mud was a curse. Moscow newspapers told of one unit that wallowed through mud for days, finally reached its first highway. Men cheered when they...
...France came a flood of reports that the franc, none too firm on its pegged legs, is to be devalued. The French Government denied all these reports, indignantly denounced them as "disturbing." But there were plenty of other reasons for the French to be disturbed about the delicate health of the franc. The main fact was the De Gaulle Government is still attacking the tough problem of French inflation in piecemeal fashion, has as yet had little success...
...corporation can prove that the base period income on which excess profits taxes are computed (either invested capital or "average" earnings) has been unfairly set. Under 722 the Bureau will consider readjusting the base for the "average" period, 1936-39, only if earnings were subnormal because of: 1) flood, fire, etc.; 2) a temporary economic upset such as war-caused material shortages; 3) an unusual profit cycle for the corporation, differing materially from the regular business cycle; 4) changes in products, capacity, etc., which are not reflected in the base earnings...
This last seemed to be a wide-open door, thus brought the greatest flood of claims. Actually, it is a mere chink, well guarded by the Bureau's multitude of hairline distinctions, and holds little hope for war babies...