Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Popular dissatisfaction with the conduct of the war up till now. This is as broad as it is deep-not so much the lack of alert at Pearl Harbor or the bitterness of Bataan, or even the fire-gutted Normandie, as the flood of officially inspired uncertainty on production, on the draft, on rubber, on gas rationing, on the performance of U.S. planes; as the spectacle of bickering between Army & Navy; as production tie-ups due to inadequate Government planning; as manpower wastage due to lack of Government policy; as delay in inflation control. (Wrote James Loeb Jr., secretary...
Flames spurted from the smoke, swept the superstructure. White steam billowed up within the pall as hoses played on the fire. Beneath the smoke, passengers crowded the windward decks. There was no shouting, no panic, even when they heard an officer call out an order to flood the magazine...
Money, Money. Retail & wholesale trade approximated $190 million between January and August, up 20% over last year. When old currency was called in July 15 for burning, $25 million in new currency (stamped Hawaii and worthless if captured) disappeared in the flood and more was ordered from Washington...
...only changed the subject-he had given the newsmen all kinds of new subjects to fill their wires and flood the news columns. None of the stories, it turned out later, was very hot-but the Chief knew that nothing is as dead as yesterday's newspapers, and that if he could only keep everyone's mind busy for the next 24 hours, nearly everyone would forget about the New Deal's out-&-out defeat in New York...
...Alamein; it now has considerable help from the U.S. Army Air Forces: U.S. medium bombers last week joined the heavy bombers and fighters already in action in Egypt. Correspondents, summing up the total of U.S. aid, were allowed to say only that it was not yet a flood, but that it was more than the trickle of a few months...