Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That move had paid off heavily for the Allies. Minesweepers had been able to do an especially good job of cleaning up the beach approaches, and the skippers of the host of first-wave landing craft could see the German water obstacles (submerged at flood tide), thus had a minimum of trouble from ripped bottoms in the first few hours...
...from insurance companies? In his lone dissent, Justice Stone gave a gloomy answer: Said he: "The practical effect ... is to withdraw from the states, in large measure, the regulation of insurance and to confer it on the national government-which has ... no scheme of regulation." This will loose "a flood of litigation and legislation, state and national...
...more & more complicated and less & less funny. Too much of this dizzy story shows signs of hard labor; about half is rather enjoyable. Betty Hutton (The Miracle of Morgan's Creek) gets funnier with every picture. She is the most startling expression of natural force since the Johnstown Flood...
...flood of first-quarter earnings reported by U.S. industry last week still had a golden look. The National City Bank of New York totted up the profits of 295 industrial corporations, found that they were 6% above last year's first quarter. But the important fact was that, with sales reported by 71 of the manufacturing corporations up a whacking 23% in the last year, profits had risen so little-with renegotiation still in the offing for some companies. Taxes and bigger operating costs were finally outpacing the swelling production of many a corporation. They are still making plenty...
...flood of indignant letters to Congressmen, the men argued that their greater numbers and experience gave them priority over the fledgling WASPs (who number some 500) as candidates for official rating. Another point in their favor: women pilots in regular service are usually grounded several days out of every month...