Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first drove Uruguay to rationing bread, then told Montevideo bakers that they could have all the wheat they wanted after he took office next month. Uruguay's elections come next fall, and Perón, who has never had much good to say for intervention, would regulate the flow of wheat to make sure that his candidate-Senator Eduardo Victor Haedo...
...Chicago's S. Buchsbaum & Co. was turning out a $12.50 vacuum feed ball pen, "The Style King Magic Flow," hoped to sell 150,000 this year...
...lava flow cannot be dammed, but in some cases it can be diverted by artificially created channels. Mauna Loa's last serious outbreak in 1935-and a minor one in 1942-was shunted away from Hilo by bombs from Army planes...
...Center would crowd the coyotes out of a 100-square-mile patch of desert, probably somewhere near Boulder Dam or Grand Coulee. Site specifications called for level country surrounded by hilly terrain for "shielding hazardous developments," one million horsepower of cheap electric power, a steady flow of cold water at a rate of 250,000 gallons a minute. By 1955, said the Army, some 4,000 men would be working at the Center...
From time to time the city has pigeon-holed construction of larger traffic signals on each of the streets converging on the Square. Placed fifteen to twenty feet away from the corner they would be visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers...