Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst December flood ever in Pennsylvania, a State famous for its flood records and the Johnstown horror of 1889, came mouthing the floating remains of chicken houses, sheds, fence rails and even sections of the fields. The flood drove workers from their lowland mills and homes. A dozen war plants stopped their lathes, cooled furnaces before the river could walk in and explode against them...
...pumps fought for a while and then gave up trying to keep the pits dry. The coal cars stood empty under a pewter sky . . . miles of them on the rights of way as coal mines sent their men home to salvage drenched belongings. Altogether 50,000 people felt the flood in their homes...
Helping us pick the Man of the Year seems to give subscribers a lot of fun, for every year the flood of their nominations grows greater. But the people who seem to like the idea best are the moviemakers. Gary Cooper played the "Man of the Year" in 1941's "Meet John Doe" ?I think Jack Haley made it too, as The Average American Male in a movie called "Thanks for Everything"?and of course last winter Katharine Hepburn strutted her way through one of her most memorable roles as "Woman of the Year...
...rout takes place as scheduled, Coach Chase should flood the rink with substituted before the evening is over. A second trio of Johnny Burton, Al Everts, and George Harding will spell the first line when needed, and Bill Apthorp and Earl Acker will relieve Mechem and Paine...
...Commodity Credit Corp. funds as a central pool to buy and sell whatever the popguns could be persuaded to produce. But when the plan was submitted to WPB's Lumber Division, under Masonite Corp. President Ben Alexander, it hit a don't-flood-the-market school of thought and bogged down...