Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...European war ends and the United Nations' power shifts to the Pacific, the West Coast needs will be even greater. WMC tightened up on job transfers, made many a migrant sit idle for 60 days after he trekked back from the West. But these were straws on the flood. The desertions went...
...older, freer way by measuring how much money people will gamble on their guesses-announced a drop in the odds against Dewey. Right after the national conventions, betting was 3-to-1 on Franklin Roosevelt. Now it is 2½-to-1. Reason, according to Bookmaker Carroll: "a flood of Dewey money...
...flood of first-half-year earnings that poured out last week still had that rich, clotted-cream look. With U.S. industry at peak production, it was no surprise that profits, in many cases, were higher than last year's first six months. The National City Bank of New York totted up earnings of 350 companies, found that they were up 11%. But the notable fact was that second-quarter earnings this year were but slightly better than first quarter. If the overall picture was still rosier than last year, it was due mainly to one rampaging industry...
...strong interests were, in the main, legacies from her husband, Thaddeus Horatius Caraway, famed for his sharp nose and waspish tongue in Senate investigations. These were flood control, safety in commercial aviation and legislation against lobbies. At his death in 1931, Arkansas politicians could not agree on a successor; Mrs. Caraway was appointed to her husband's office. The next year Huey Long, eager to extend his political domain, brought his sound trucks into Arkansas and helped "the poor little widow lady" to become the first woman elected a U.S. Senator.* Thereafter, Huey Long could usually count on Senator...
Overcast skies threatened to break loose last Saturday afternoon at Soldiers Field, but the only real deluge that struck was the flood of base hits that rattled off Harvard bats, as Coach Floyd Stahl's outfit took the measure of an outclassed Tufts team...