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Word: floodings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mellon's mistake, the President is said to have told national leaders recently, was in removing the wartime tax load too soon, thus releasing a flood of surplus purchasing power which Mr. Roosevelt believes contributed to the 1929 stockmarket crash...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POST-WAR: Did Mr. Roosevelt Say It? | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...have no chance. Soon we will be coming over every night, every day-rain, flood or snow-we and the Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Threat or Promise? | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...last of his Current Events lectures yesterday, Hans Kohn, professor of Government at Smith College, stated that the next century will be an American Century since the American ideal of democracy, which embodies liberty and equality, will flood the world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KOHN PRAISES AMERICAN LIFE IN TALK HERE | 8/5/1942 | See Source »

...with Chinese armies driven back upon Hankow by the great Japanese force seeking to capture the Yangtze Valley and conquer China by one blow. It was almost like coming home. Mountains gave way to hills and around about their bases lapped greyish yellow waters. The Yangtze is in flood and we are drawing near our target, I thought. I crawled through the tunnel under the pilot's seat and came out in the glassed bombardier's compartment. Butch Morgan sat in the very nose of the ship, peering down his bombsight. I sat in the seat directly behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: ROUGH ON RABBITS | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...Flood Greater Than Any Since Noah's Day May at Any Time Sweep Down the Croton Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Vermin Press | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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