Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mind the 60,000,000 jobs which he has said are essential to a prosperous postwar U.S., the President once again called for what may yet prove to be a major Term IV project: dividing the nation into seven TVA-inspired watershed areas for the development of navigation, flood control, hydroelectric power and irrigation...
...situation has caused renewed interest: the project could provide postwar jobs. In Washington, Republican Senator George David Aiken of Vermont said he would offer the plan as an amendment to either the Flood Control Bill or the Rivers & Harbors Bill, both due for debate. He insisted that a treaty is not necessary. By executive decree the U.S. traded 50 destroyers to Great Britain in exchange for air bases. The Seaway project might be realized the same...
Mindful of the flood of calls, wires, letters usually prompted by its first telegrams, the Army stressed in announcing the procedure that it can answer no queries during the interim between first and second reports...
...often composed lying in bed on a flood of pillows, cursing elegantly at the gout but sticking to his scores for 16 hours at a stretch. His popular songs had titles like How Do I Love Thee, Spring's First Kiss, I Love Thee So, Can I Forget. He wrote concert reviews for many years on the old New York World and Journal. In 1920, attending a supper in his honor, 60-year-old Reginald de Koven was stricken with apoplexy. He died a few minutes later...
...more aggressive publishers, but not too young to have moneybags under their eyes, will continue to run S. & S. Young President Robert Fair de Graff,* 49, who owned 51% of Pocket Books, will continue to manage the company. Tycoon Field denied that he plans to use his millions to flood the U.S. with $1 books. He merely intends to provide "better and better books for more and more people...