Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroad tracks-local Republicans swore he drew more people than had attended Truman's notification ceremony. At week's end John Bricker moved into Michigan, with Ohio, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania ahead. He pressed on-belaboring Sidney Hillman and Earl Browder, crying out for a flood of votes to submerge the wicked works of the New Deal and to float anew the ark of Republicanism...
...World stocks of sugar are low: demand exceeds supply. In the U.S. last week, distributors' stocks of sugar were down to 680,706 tons v. 1.2 million a year ago. Grocers in the Midwest were hanging out "no sugar" signs. Soon European buyers may re-enter the market, flood Havana with huge orders in competition with the U.S., and bid sugar prices far higher than the CCC offer...
...flood of pent-up Chinese criticism loosed by the recent relaxation of Government censorship, one newspaper and its editor have been outstanding. The newspaper is China's leading independent, Chungking's Ta Rung Pao. Its brilliant, self-educated editor is slight, bespectacled Wang Yun-sheng. Recent excerpts from his hard-hitting editorials...
...point they chose. They had a fifth column of diabolical proportions. In Kweilin, some said, General Kenji Doihara himself was directing the fifth column, but they were wrong. Behind the elbow of every soldier stood the fear of a traitor; the fifth column was among the refugee flood on southbound trains, collecting information, firing buildings, shooting at sight...
...charge of demobilization plans is 51-year-old Brigadier General William F. Tompkins, a soft-voiced, lantern-jawed Virginian who in 29 years has had a crack at just about every job there is in a military career, including flood control. He has been what the Army calls a "farmed-out" officer all his life. He has three sons in the services: one a major in the engineers, one a pursuit pilot in England, the third a marine in training...