Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nile is a serious matter. During the annual flood, much water goes out to sea unused; during the rest of the year, there is not enough water. A great deal more acreage could be devoted to the valuable long-season crops if the Nile could be forced to flow steadily all the year round...
Harry Truman's "bold new program" seemed tailor-made for Latin America. All 20 Latin American republics are "underdeveloped." They have been crying for economic help ever since war's end, when the flow of U.S. dollars southward slowed to a trickle. Would the "bold new program" solve their problem...
...over" the lands under consideration. The Court further stated that the "State of California has no title thereto or property interest therein." The reasoning behind the majority decision was that former decisions referred to tidelands, and the strict definition of tidelands is the land covered by the ebb and flow of the tides. No court ruling had ever been made covering the area between this tideland definitely owned by the states and the three-mile limit claimed by the United States...
...anti-inflation bill. In defense of this view, Administration Economist Leon Keyserling assured the House-Senate Committee on the Economic Report with some fervor last week that the boom could go on through 1949. But he qualified this and almost everything else he said with such a muddy flow of technical phrases that in the end he seemed to have uttered only one word...
...secure wider distribution, he binds parts of his publications as separate volumes and sells them individually, relying on direct-mail advertising and an erratic flow of mimeographed news-letters to push his sales...