Word: floodings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Plain Jacket. The world had learned of his arrival in Australia. From sick Allied hearts, a wave of hope rose. The wave became a flood, a kind of prayerful madness. Army censors in Australia, before announcement of his presence was permitted, admonished those in the know not to speak the name MacArthur aloud, to say he if they must refer to him. Statesmen, the press, plain men everywhere cried that MacArthur would put an end to retreats; MacArthur would take the offensive; MacArthur was the man who could...
Once Detroit's conversion to war is complete, when the lines are all moving with the precision of timing and economy of motion that Detroit borrowed from the morning stars, they will pour out such a flood of war machines as no man has ever imagined. The onetime auto industry will employ a million men & women, twice as many as it ever did, will make a billion dollars' worth of armaments a month. If Armageddon is to be decided in Detroit, Armageddon...
Although the list of Faculty leaves of absence is very short, the men at their teaching posts are threatened to be submerged beneath a swollen flood of war and academic work. Only in the Sociology Department has a noticeable number of teachers actually left Cambridge...
...even the Treasury, as yet -wants to make defense-bond buying compulsory. But the flood of money in the country has risen dangerously high. The Wall Street Journal had the idea-of-the-week: dangle the profit motive in front of income-earners. Encourage petiple to hand over their cash to the Government, suggested the Journal, by letting them deduct from their income taxes 10% of every dollar they invest in defense bonds. The Journal thought that thus the Government could 1) sell plenty of bonds to cheerful buyers, 2) perhaps even get away with paying no interest...
...Siege. The Japanese flood rose and widened, flowed inland from Indramayu to the railway between Batavia and Surabaya. Soon, in this central invasion sector, the Japanese were within 30 mountainous miles of Bandung. On the west they pushed inward toward Batavia. The Dutch destroyed everything of military use in Batavia, even though they insisted that the capital itself was not yet in danger. At Tjepu they wrecked the last major oil base left to them in the Indies. Then came an announcement which accented Java's extremity. The United Nations' joint southwest Pacific command in Java no longer...