Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Flood from the West. Made-in-America supplies were still rolling into England last week. At one medium-sized port, U.S. troops and British civilian workers swarmed aboard cargo ships, unloaded tanks, jeeps, guns; unloaded and assembled 65-ton diesel locomotives, 300-ton floating cranes; attached wheels and accessory equipment to scores of tank cars...
...Norfolk, one of the largest naval bases in the world, the war brought a daily flood of 7,000 to 40,000 bluejackets fresh from the sea, well-heeled and full of beans. The town, already crowded, was a nightmare of uproar, ranging from innocent merriment to saloon and bawdy-house brawls where tars and civilians got hurt. Vice blossomed everywhere. The Navy, as alarmed as the civilians, got busy...
...mile international section of the river between El Paso and Brownsville is sometimes only a chain of puddles, sometimes a roaring flood which pours precious water into the Gulf. If this excess water could be used for irrigation throughout the year, it would add perhaps a million acres of rich agricultural land to both the U.S. and Mexico, bring to reality a project long discussed by both...
...first time in many a moon Dr. Joseph Fort Nerwton did not have to get up at 6 o'clock on weekday mornings. After eleven years the Philadelphia Episcopalian rector had given up his syndicated daily newspaper column, Everyday Religion. The flood of readers' letters that had put him to work at dawn's crack was beginning to subside...
...long as military orders for woolens continue to flood the mills, the wool growers are safe. For military orders specify domestic wool. The Commodity Credit Corporation purchased the 1943 domestic clip at ceiling prices, and is unwilling to sell its wool for less. As a result the growers have already lost the civilian market. Textile manufacturers, forced to keep their prices in line with OPA ceilings on civilian goods, cannot afford to pay $1.18 a lb. for home-grown wool, 65% higher than the prewar price. Instead they are buying imported wool, which despite a tariff of 34? a pound...